You are such great personality i ever see to share secret for us. Some of retoucher can't share their secret of retouching and i really appreciated you. I am hobbies photography and camera is everything for me in my life.
Once I got past all the typical FS videos, I found yours. Learned so much more from your videos. Everyone else''s seems to shortcut the process with only two layers. It never looked natural to me. Learning how to add additional layers and why one should, makes the difference. Thank you!
The mixer brush on the lower level accomplishes the same kind of thing without painting. Try it. Select clean brush, wet 20%, load 20%, mix 20%, flow 20%, do not sample all layers, and blend with little circles. it's a bit easier.
Just came across your tuts and just want to say they are fantastic - best on UA-cam! I love how you get to the point and your extra-dry retouchers humour! Awesome!
I don't know how I have never seen this and I need it right now. Couldn't get it to work for ages, then worked out my blur layer was too low at 2.5, this is magic!
Good stuff! I've just recently discovered freq separation and am learning the various methods that different guys use. I would never have guessed using curve adjusted layers for dodging and burning as opposed to the 50% that others use. Thanks for taking the time to demonstrate these techniques.
This is gold, you deserve a lot more Subs. i already watched a lot of tutorials from a high popular channels, and i must say your quality tutorials are very above lvl than the popular ones.
So i just found your articles and videos just a couple of days ago...and i just want to say i am already such a huge fan! I can't believe i am just now finding you! Where have you been all my life?? haha...jk But seriously i thought i knew almost everything photoshop and retouching...but your videos have increased my knowledge by far..it goes to show we NEVER stop learning....and i just admire the way you retouch with such natural and subtle changes...instead of heavy handed...and your finished work is just breath taking!...Just wanted to say you have got a new fan!! Thank you so much for your lessons!
Hi, Machael. Forehead hair was giving me a really hard time. Your video solved this problem. Also, thanks for showing how to do non-destructive FS. Super useful. Cheers.
This is excellent....really clean work. Subscribed!! The thing is that I'm familiar with everything you've done here...but just not in this particular way nor have my results been quite as clean/natural. Photoshop - 100 different ways to reach your end goal!!
Your techniques are really great. Thanks for sharing. I've seen tons of videos (most of them are paid courses) and they never got even clos eto these kind of results.
Michael, thank you so much for this tutorial. When you said: "this is a advanced tutorial" I didn't thought that was SO advanced. I've learned so much in a half hour. I just want to ask you if please could speak not so fast, sometimes your voice sounds like fast-forwarding. haha English is not my first language, so forgive me some mistakes! Thank you!
Hi Michael! Just wondering... what was your light set up for this image? I'm trying to figure out if you use a reflector underneath or a beauty dish (unlikely, but the shape looks familiar). Thanks! Awesome tutorial!
your way to deal with hair at the edge of the forehead is really cool man ! thanks for trick :) i used to do pretty much the same but using the clone stamp tool for the high layer, why do you prefer copying the layer ? keep up the good work Michael :)
What is your determining factor when you are doing these micro-corrections? When balancing the size and placement of the eyes, for example, I'm curious to learn how you know what the correct little nudges in one direction versus another would be. Is it just a symmetrical thing? Or is it something that you've learned through work as requested by advertisers? In other words, I'd like to know what the ideal form of the face etc. is that you base your corrections on so that I too can know the fancy stuff advertisers and peeps are looking for ;)
Hey Michael, thanks for the tutorial. Your idea of using clipping layers for non-destructive retouching of the high layer is awesome, especially in combination with the warping. I never saw your version of dodging and burning. I use a 50% neutral grey layer in "soft light" mode. and just draw on it with a black or white brush (black for darken, white for brighten) at 3 or 4 percent. I figure it might be a bit faster than your version since you don't need to switch layers for alternating between black and white. You also have a nice overview of what you have done when you switch it on an of in one click. Is there a reason you don't use it like that, or is it just personal preference? Best regards and thanks again.
Thanks for this video. I have been trying the same technique but using the second high frequency layer on linear light instead of normal mode and I could not figure out why it was not worth eking
Thanks, Michael, for your (again) great tutorial! But this time I had a hard time following your cursor... perhaps not thaaat important, but sometimes having some sort of "cursor" highlight migh help a bit the viewers to follow along, don't you think? Again, thanks for this tutorial and looking forward to seeing the "paid" ones (on light and retouching). B. regards.
I was doing fine until I came to the part where you do sampling in the blank layer between the low and high layer. My eyedropper doesn't change color no matter where I sample. It keeps that grey color and I just can't paint on that blank layer. How do you do it? I have to go on the Low layer itself to do the sampling and painting. I'm using photoshop cc 2014 and the sampling and painting in the blank layer doesn't work.
I was wondering, the idea of using skin grafts is good, but from what I saw on the video wouldn't it be faster to work the frequency separation with the healing and clone tools from the start? You would not need to do a "post clean up" after the skin graft... From what I've done, most of the touch up you're doing with the painting and cleaning I do it all with the clone and healing on each of the frequencies, I thought it would be faster but the touch ups (painting and healing later) makes it not as fast as I thought. Maybe its just me, and the "newbieness" of not having experience with skin grafting, that I think its not really as fast as just normal cleaning on each of the frequencies and then dodging and burning. Still Thank you for taking the time on making the tutorial :)
Hi Michael, I see that you always D&B using curves. Is there a specific reason why you don't change the blending mode to luminosity so it doesn't mess up you saturation?
Depends on the area I'm sampling. If it's near the hair then usually around 5x5. Ideally for something like the neck then you can go 11x11 or even 31x31.
Really helpful post. Thank you, Sir. How do I know if I need to use the #s for an 8 or 16bit image? Is that like shooting on a crop-sensor vs. full frame?
+Michelle Doherty It will say on the top of your photo in photoshop. Filename @ 100% (Layer Name, RGB/8) ... or ... RGB/16). It depends on the source and how you exported it.
how to make small size of sample healing or clone stamp tool. when I sample my healing and clone stamp tool bigger and it doesn't good to sample small good area?
when I select layer using lasso, the layer keeps on appearing as transparent, how can I fix that? I tried setting the Lasso tool feathering to 0px or 0.2 but it still does that...I am so stuck!
i have a question. i see you are sampling on a blank layer. how are you doing that. my color wont change once i try to sample colors when i am on the blank layer. i understand that it contains no pixels but i am still learning and i see you doing it.
Why does every one have to insist for a slow process of FS when a combination of healing brush and toggling between Lighten mode and darken with the clone tool suffices for this type of retouching?
@Michael Woloszynowicz On one of the articles you linked about frequency separation there is a step that suggest adding a surface blur duplicated from the original layer for removing some blotches of the skin, when i add this layer in between the high pass and low pass it automatically cancels the effects on these two and i am not able to add the blur eather, anything im doing wrong?
For some reason I've watched again and again and when I select and duplicate an area with the lasso tool it won't cover at 100 the area I want to hide. There is a sort of transparency that the high layer replicate. Weird...
You are such great personality i ever see to share secret for us. Some of retoucher can't share their secret of retouching and i really appreciated you. I am hobbies photography and camera is everything for me in my life.
Once I got past all the typical FS videos, I found yours. Learned so much more from your videos. Everyone else''s seems to shortcut the process with only two layers. It never looked natural to me. Learning how to add additional layers and why one should, makes the difference. Thank you!
That was incredible, I have never seen anyone else teach retouching to this level.
The mixer brush on the lower level accomplishes the same kind of thing without painting. Try it. Select clean brush, wet 20%, load 20%, mix 20%, flow 20%, do not sample all layers, and blend with little circles. it's a bit easier.
Michael, this is the best solution to fix problems of skin texture . Great tutorial. Thanks!
Just came across your tuts and just want to say they are fantastic - best on UA-cam! I love how you get to the point and your extra-dry retouchers humour! Awesome!
I don't know how I have never seen this and I need it right now. Couldn't get it to work for ages, then worked out my blur layer was too low at 2.5, this is magic!
sick?? hell no... i could watch your stuff for hours and hours.. you are awesome.. and the stuff you teach is just remarkable...
Good stuff! I've just recently discovered freq separation and am learning the various methods that different guys use. I would never have guessed using curve adjusted layers for dodging and burning as opposed to the 50% that others use. Thanks for taking the time to demonstrate these techniques.
This is gold, you deserve a lot more Subs. i already watched a lot of tutorials from a high popular channels, and i must say your quality tutorials are very above lvl than the popular ones.
Morning sarks, it's gonna take more than a song this morning!!!
So i just found your articles and videos just a couple of days ago...and i just want to say i am already such a huge fan! I can't believe i am just now finding you! Where have you been all my life?? haha...jk But seriously i thought i knew almost everything photoshop and retouching...but your videos have increased my knowledge by far..it goes to show we NEVER stop learning....and i just admire the way you retouch with such natural and subtle changes...instead of heavy handed...and your finished work is just breath taking!...Just wanted to say you have got a new fan!! Thank you so much for your lessons!
Hi, Machael. Forehead hair was giving me a really hard time. Your video solved this problem. Also, thanks for showing how to do non-destructive FS. Super useful. Cheers.
I will be using the private classes soon. Just blew my mind with the copies of high and clipping lol dont know why I never thought of that.
This is excellent....really clean work. Subscribed!!
The thing is that I'm familiar with everything you've done here...but just not in this particular way nor have my results been quite as clean/natural.
Photoshop - 100 different ways to reach your end goal!!
Great tutorial my friend! This will most certainly come in handy.
Your techniques are really great. Thanks for sharing. I've seen tons of videos (most of them are paid courses) and they never got even clos eto these kind of results.
Another great tut. It's all about the fine detail. Love it.
Awesome tutorial! Thank you so much Michael! I learnt a lot, God bless you man!
Really happy to hear that. Thanks for the kind words Nate.
You're the best Michael. I, again, learned something new. Thank you!
My friend you always surprise me with new techniques.....Congratulations thank you for sharing. Your friend José
Thank you for your tutorials, they have improved my work a lot
You sir, are a master! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks Michael, I'm currently doing some portfolio stuff and have come across this problem which I wasn't entirely sure how to approach.
Great Tutorial, I'll certainly be trying that out
Very Good!! Must try that.
Michael, thank you so much for this tutorial. When you said: "this is a advanced tutorial" I didn't thought that was SO advanced. I've learned so much in a half hour. I just want to ask you if please could speak not so fast, sometimes your voice sounds like fast-forwarding. haha
English is not my first language, so forgive me some mistakes! Thank you!
Thank You! Finallly can get the hairline done correctly!
Awesome tutorial. Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful work!
Thank you! I took great gems from this lesson!
Great tutorial as always, thank you so much!
Hi Michael! Just wondering... what was your light set up for this image? I'm trying to figure out if you use a reflector underneath or a beauty dish (unlikely, but the shape looks familiar). Thanks! Awesome tutorial!
It was a small deep octa as the main above and a white beauty dish as fill below. Also a spotlight boomed above the model for the background.
Thank you Michael!
great stuff
your way to deal with hair at the edge of the forehead is really cool man ! thanks for trick :)
i used to do pretty much the same but using the clone stamp tool for the high layer, why do you prefer copying the layer ?
keep up the good work Michael :)
I find I get better results with copy. Clone-stamp can lead to a bit of softness as you gradually paint in. Just my preference though.
Great tutorial! Thank you so much!
A big fan Michael learned a lot from you... This is overkill though.
A very informative video
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What is your determining factor when you are doing these micro-corrections? When balancing the size and placement of the eyes, for example, I'm curious to learn how you know what the correct little nudges in one direction versus another would be. Is it just a symmetrical thing? Or is it something that you've learned through work as requested by advertisers? In other words, I'd like to know what the ideal form of the face etc. is that you base your corrections on so that I too can know the fancy stuff advertisers and peeps are looking for ;)
Hey Michael, thanks for the tutorial. Your idea of using clipping layers for non-destructive retouching of the high layer is awesome, especially in combination with the warping.
I never saw your version of dodging and burning.
I use a 50% neutral grey layer in "soft light" mode. and just draw on it with a black or white brush (black for darken, white for brighten) at 3 or 4 percent.
I figure it might be a bit faster than your version since you don't need to switch layers for alternating between black and white.
You also have a nice overview of what you have done when you switch it on an of in one click.
Is there a reason you don't use it like that, or is it just personal preference?
Best regards and thanks again.
Great tutorial man!
Thanks for this video. I have been trying the same technique but using the second high frequency layer on linear light instead of normal mode and I could not figure out why it was not worth eking
Love the techniques , thanks :-)
Thanks, Michael, for your (again) great tutorial!
But this time I had a hard time following your cursor... perhaps not thaaat important, but sometimes having some sort of "cursor" highlight migh help a bit the viewers to follow along, don't you think?
Again, thanks for this tutorial and looking forward to seeing the "paid" ones (on light and retouching).
B. regards.
Man, this is awesome and super useful! :D
I was doing fine until I came to the part where you do sampling in the blank layer between the low and high layer. My eyedropper doesn't change color no matter where I sample. It keeps that grey color and I just can't paint on that blank layer. How do you do it? I have to go on the Low layer itself to do the sampling and painting. I'm using photoshop cc 2014 and the sampling and painting in the blank layer doesn't work.
I was wondering, the idea of using skin grafts is good, but from what I saw on the video wouldn't it be faster to work the frequency separation with the healing and clone tools from the start? You would not need to do a "post clean up" after the skin graft... From what I've done, most of the touch up you're doing with the painting and cleaning I do it all with the clone and healing on each of the frequencies, I thought it would be faster but the touch ups (painting and healing later) makes it not as fast as I thought.
Maybe its just me, and the "newbieness" of not having experience with skin grafting, that I think its not really as fast as just normal cleaning on each of the frequencies and then dodging and burning.
Still Thank you for taking the time on making the tutorial :)
Hi Michael, I see that you always D&B using curves. Is there a specific reason why you don't change the blending mode to luminosity so it doesn't mess up you saturation?
Awesome video. Thank you :)
When you're sampling colors with the color picker are you using a setting like 5 by 5 average? Thanks for the tutorial!
Depends on the area I'm sampling. If it's near the hair then usually around 5x5. Ideally for something like the neck then you can go 11x11 or even 31x31.
Really helpful post. Thank you, Sir.
How do I know if I need to use the #s for an 8 or 16bit image? Is that like shooting on a crop-sensor vs. full frame?
+Michelle Doherty It will say on the top of your photo in photoshop. Filename @ 100% (Layer Name, RGB/8) ... or ... RGB/16). It depends on the source and how you exported it.
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how to make small size of sample healing or clone stamp tool. when I sample my healing and clone stamp tool bigger and it doesn't good to sample small good area?
I'm not sure if this is really better or fasten then just using the repair tool.
when I select layer using lasso, the layer keeps on appearing as transparent, how can I fix that? I tried setting the Lasso tool feathering to 0px or 0.2 but it still does that...I am so stuck!
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Wouldn't be more efficient and better to add blank layers linked to the high pass one (the H) instead of copying it 3 times?
i have a question. i see you are sampling on a blank layer. how are you doing that. my color wont change once i try to sample colors when i am on the blank layer. i understand that it contains no pixels but i am still learning and i see you doing it.
Jesse Pedyfoot check your brush settings to sample current layer or layer below
Why does every one have to insist for a slow process of FS when a combination of healing brush and toggling between Lighten mode and darken with the clone tool suffices for this type of retouching?
'cause it's messing up the texture too much ?
a matter of personal tastes ?
:)
@Michael Woloszynowicz On one of the articles you linked about frequency separation there is a step that suggest adding a surface blur duplicated from the original layer for removing some blotches of the skin, when i add this layer in between the high pass and low pass it automatically cancels the effects on these two and i am not able to add the blur eather, anything im doing wrong?
sometimes the audio funks out? Right after 14:18
For some reason I've watched again and again and when I select and duplicate an area with the lasso tool it won't cover at 100 the area I want to hide. There is a sort of transparency that the high layer replicate. Weird...
+Einzigkeit G it sounds like your Lasso is set to a high feather amount
Thanks for the reply :-)
excellent technique; but when u turn your head like this, u will have a skin fold; not showing it, makes u look like an alien lol