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I went to the north sea coast with a friend (and model) in order to take some pictures, test my new camera, and really have a lot of new material to put Affinity Photo to the test. Here are two examples: 1. I used DxO Optics Pro for the RAW development of two separate versions of the image, one for the background and one for the foreground, that were combined using AP. Due to the distance there is not so much to see of the frequency seperation, but it was my first real result with AP. https://instagram.com/p/6cqf6Gp5Ef/ orhttps://www.facebook.com/FHBPhotography/photos/ms.c.eJwNyMERACAMArCNPBDQsv9immcItoBNNREWf4y7MzhXzANwrAaq.bps.a.897152580336984.1073741829.240183202700595/1019849258067315/?type=1 2. The next one is a lingerie picture where a lot of skin is visible. What I usually do is, I do use the frequency separation to create a wedge filter, i.e. I separate 1px as high frequency from the image, then from the remaining residual image 2px frequency, then 3px and so on. In this example until I had 1 thru 15px frequency wavelets and a residual layer. I do NOT use the entire image, I select the skin using the selection brush and copy paste the skin only into a new layer and apply the above precedure. In the resulting 15 wavelets and 1 residual layer I deselect all wavelets and then start from the small frequencies and add them again until the result looks good (here 1-7 are switched on, 8-15 are off). I add a mask layer and delete the ugly colorful edge effects with a soft brush from the mask. Here you go ... https://instagram.com/p/6kJ0sdp5GH/ orhttps://www.facebook.com/FHBPhotography/photos/ms.c.eJwNyMERACAMArCNPECguv9immcIMUQPtR108Yclwpn2zgNupQaV.bps.a.897152580336984.1073741829.240183202700595/1021510681234506/?type=1 What do you think? Cheers Frank