Frequency Separation what to do next?

[Digbydo]

I have watched the tutorial & other Youtube vids about 'Frequency Separation' I am getting better at it however once I've finished and say I then want to change the colour of the eyes or lips how do I come out of both High & Low Frequency layers each tutorial only shows how to do it (which is great) but what if you want to go on and do other layers and adjustments - or - should these be completed first?

[James Ritson]

Hi Digbydo,

 

Once you've done your retouching work there are a couple of ways you can go on to do further work.

 

One approach is to simply use adjustment and live filter layers above the two frequency layers and mask them - that way, for example, you could use a recolour adjustment to change the colour of the eyes. Bear in mind that you don't have to add separate layer masks to adjustments and filters - they already contain their own masks. Just paint onto them with black/white to alter the mask.

 

The other approach is to go to Layer - Merge Visible. This will create an editable pixel layer at the top of the layer stack which contains all the work you've done so far. You can then paint onto this, use Liquify, etc to achieve the results you're after.

 

Hope that helps!