You could reapply the Frequency Separation to the Low Frequency layer (residuals) several times, with a higher radius each time. Is this really how it works, or am I missing something? Any recommendations would be cheerfully accepted, 'cause most of AP is great, but this is like 80% of my workflow and as I understand it, it's. Separate, edit, merge, separate differently, edit, merge, separate the first one again 'cause I missed a bit, edit, merge, repeat ad nauseum. I'm looking for advice: is there a way to do something like this in AP? (I've never used Ps, (I have a philosophical objection to Adobe) so I don't have this experience to bring over).Īs near as I can tell, the process in AP requires me to manually select a degree of separation to work on -every time- I want to make a change. I flick up and down the layers and adjust different layers of detail depending on where I'm working on the body, and how effective the changes are.įrequency Separation, as seen in AP and Ps, seems like an intensely cumbersome way of accomplishing what is a smooth process in GIMP. This is 4 layers I use on just about every single image. For really large areas like thighs, I use layer 6. Typically I use layers 3-5: 3 for small facial detail, 5 for the blotchiness us humans are so good at, and layer 4 for all things in between.
For the 36-mpix images from my D800, I use 7 layers.Įach of these layers gives me the ability to reduce the detail in varying degrees of courseness. It's essentially the equivalent of using Frequency Separation, but with a one-step process to generate a user-definable number of layers.
I do a -lot- of skin smoothing and fixing, and one of my most powerful tools is the Wavelet Decompose plugin for GIMP. I'm a full time photographer, and I work primarily with people.