Close-Up Beauty: Skin and Tone

Beauty retouching

A tight beauty close-up framed by white flowers, worked with frequency separation and dodge and burn: redness evened, freckles and pores kept.

Frequency separation
Dodge and burn
Close-up

Service: Beauty Retouching

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Retouched close-up with even skin tone, freckles and pore texture kept, and the eyes and lips lifted slightly — Drag anywhere on the image, or focus the handle and use the arrow keys, to compare before and after.

Original beauty close-up of a face framed by white flowers, with uneven redness across the cheeks and nose — Drag anywhere on the image, or focus the handle and use the arrow keys, to compare before and after.

Project overview

At this magnification every decision shows. Blur looks plastic immediately, and the uneven redness across the cheeks and around the nose cannot be fixed by lifting exposure without flattening the whole face.

Transformation details

Frequency separation split colour from texture, so the redness could be evened on one layer while the pores and freckles stayed untouched on the other.
Individual marks were cleaned on the texture layer one at a time.
Dodge and burn restored the modelling the colour work had softened, down the nose, under the cheekbones and along the jaw.
Lips and eyes were lifted last by a small amount, and the flowers were left as shot.