Photoshop Zone

Split Frequency Healing is a technique that you can use in Photoshop that will allow you retouch photos without affecting the photo’s respective tone or texture. In this tutorial, commercial retoucher , Daniel Meadows, who has worked for clients such as Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Marie Claire, Chanel, and L’Oreal Paris, will explain this technique and how it can be used in your workflow. Let’s get started! Special thanks to Dubai Photographer, Sherif Mokbel for providing the photography for this tutorial. Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial. Model Before You Begin Let’s take a look at the image that we’ll be using for this tutorial. Below you’ll see a typical example of markup you might receive from a client. It might be a jpeg like this, a scan of a pen-annotated print or simply a set of instructions or suggestions, but ultimately you’ll be expected to deliver on a set brief. We have instructions to clean u...

Step 1 Let’s begin by making a 1000×900 document. Place the first image, Girl 1 into your document. We’ll be resizing this photo slightly, so press CMD+T and type in 90% for the width and height. To keep track of our layers (because there will be 4 photos), rename the layer to “Girl 1″. Step 2 Now take Girl 2 and place it into your document. We’re going to be using this image twice so press CMD+J to duplicate it. Press CMD+T on the newest image and resize that to 60%. Rename the regular sized image “Girl2″ and the newly resized image (the one we just resized to 60%) to “Girl 2 Resized”. Step 3 For our last picture place Girl 3 into your document. Once again press CMD+T and resize it to 50%. Rename this layer to “Girl 3″. Step 4 Make sure your pictures are all correctly named, then we’ll begin to assemble them. I like to move pictures around and have a variety of smaller and bigger pictures to balance the blend. Assemble your blend according to the pic...