Close-Up Beauty: Skin and Tone

Beauty retouching

A tight beauty frame worked with frequency separation and dodge and burn: marks removed, pore texture kept, tone evened across the face.

Frequency separation
Dodge and burn
Close-up

Service: Beauty Retouching

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The same close-up with even tone and pore texture preserved after frequency separation — Drag anywhere on the image, or focus the handle and use the arrow keys, to compare before and after.

Close-up beauty portrait with uneven skin tone and visible blemishes — 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 is visible. Blur reads instantly as plastic, and the uneven redness across the cheek and around the nose cannot be fixed by lifting exposure without flattening the whole face.

Transformation details

Frequency separation was used to separate colour from texture, so the blotching could be evened on the colour layer while the pores stayed untouched on the other.
Individual marks were cleaned on the texture layer one at a time.
Dodge and burn rebuilt the modelling the colour work had softened — down the nose, under the cheekbone, along the jaw.
Lips and eyes were brought up last, by a small amount, and the flowers in frame were left as they were shot.