boost and cut<\/strong> detail at the same time, that it’s where this techniques should excel.
\n 6. It’s not used to add a special mood to images.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”Row” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”off” custom_width_px=”1080px” custom_width_percent=”80%” use_custom_gutter=”off” gutter_width=”3″ padding_mobile=”off” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”on” make_equal=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”on” parallax_2=”off” parallax_method_2=”on” parallax_3=”off” parallax_method_3=”on” parallax_4=”off” parallax_method_4=”on” disabled=”off”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_video admin_label=”Video Frequency Separation Made Easy Short” src=”https:\/\/vimeo.com\/188690938″ image_src=”\/\/i.vimeocdn.com\/video\/598770952_960.jpg” disabled=”off”]
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A Different Approach. Frequency Separation With Sliders<\/h2>\n
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Given the potential of Frequency Separation, we wondered if it was possible to get more out of this technique, working on different bands covering from higher to lower frequencies, while reducing the amount of work required through a live preview and a partial automatization. After a year of hard work by our developers, the answer was this plugin for Photoshop.<\/p>\n
Wow! Frequency Equalizer does just that:under the hood it decomposes your image in five different frequency bands and allows you to adjust them individually, exactly as described in the page and video, but there are four more frequencies available. But where the decomposed layers are? Well, they\u2019re hidden: you actually manipulate them using the sliders. A boost (upward) corresponds to an enhancement of a given band, a cut (downward) corresponds to a reduction.<\/p>\n
The sliders correspond to five spatial frequency bands; left to right, the high frequencies which become progressively lower. If you prefer: detail is on the left, shape is on the right. The intermediate bands work on intermediate scales. Wow! adds style, image sharpness and three-dimensionality together with incredibly smooth transitions.<\/p>\n
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\nHere below and example of Frequency Equalizer applied in one go. It took three minutes to compare more versions and apply, using Mask Equalizer, a mask to partially protect the shadows. No retouch, absolutely!\u00a0 As you may notice, even if some imperfections still remain there is and important overall improvement. Skin and gradations in general are much more pleasant with no fake effect. Despite of this smoothness the image is more brilliant and sharp where needed.<\/p>\n
Stay in touch or sign up The next posts will be focused on frequency separation and retouch with sliders, frequency separation with sliders and decompose, and frequency decompose with lansdcape photography. Don’t miss them.<\/p>\n
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To put it as easily as possible, frequency separation is a Photoshop technique which separates the texture of an image from its shape creating two layers, one storing color and luminosity information and the other one, storing the detail. Activating a curve adjustment layer, restricted to operate on the high frequency layer, you can change the detail level of the image by steepening or flattening the curve. You will also be able to easily clone over defective parts with no visible side-effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[142,86],"tags":[128,148,143,145,147,144,146],"class_list":["post-28541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ps-plugins","category-wow","tag-beauty","tag-enhancer","tag-frequency","tag-plugin","tag-portrait","tag-separation-photoshop","tag-spatial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowhowtransfer.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowhowtransfer.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowhowtransfer.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowhowtransfer.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowhowtransfer.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowhowtransfer.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowhowtransfer.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowhowtransfer.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowhowtransfer.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}