![]() Blending the light and dark areas to a uniform and consistent pattern causes those undulations to disappear. In this case, the lighting setup highlighted some undulations in the subjects cheeks. By lightening and darkening areas I can control shape. Shadow is the main queue our brains use to turn 2D images into 3D ideas. I also used blended regions of the low frequency layer to smooth the shape of his face. In this case, I used frequency separation to remove the bags under the subjects eyes and reduce the laugh lines around his eyes. ![]() Frequency Separation and Face Shapeįrequency separation is frequently (see what I did there) used to smooth skin blemishes, and remove pores, and other natural skin features. Once the subject was masked, all I had to do was create an empty pixel layer, move it below the subject and fill it with white. A quick pass through the “refine mask” tool allowed me to clean up the edges and get the mask very close to perfect. Once I had a rough selection, I created a mask and inverted it (because I had selected the background but I wanted to mask IN the subject instead). Background Replacementīecause the original background was nearly white, the quick selection tool in Affinity Photo did a reasonably good job of picking out the background. By adding the light the the background I was able to get close enough to make life easier during the retouching. It is easiest to replace a background when the new background is similar in color and tone to the original. ![]() I used 2 lights, a large 3×4 soft-box on the subject and a 3×1.5 strip box on the background to light it. I took advantage of the (nearly) white walls at the location and concentrated on lighting the subject the way I wanted. In this case, logistically, I didn’t want to have to haul a 4 light setup, backdrop and v-flats to the shoot location. On White head shots can be tough if you have to work on location. In this video I used quick selection, masks and mask refinement as well as working with frequency separation and face shape removing blemishes and smoothing the skin at a large scale while leaving the natural pores and other defects. In this video I walk through a simple background replacement and skin retouch.
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