Skin Smoothing "Action/Macro" - Brush

[ctphoto2115]

Hello,

New to the forums here. I just migrated over to Affinity Photo and I'm trying to replicate an action I use in PS. I would love to replicate this as it's the one thing that I need to complete my skin retouching workflow to make the transition as seamless as possible. 

Here is the action from PS - Smooth Skin Action

The part I cannot replicate is the "Blend If" step, as the following steps after that point are hard for me to "match up" as I don't have enough proficiency in Affinity Photo to follow the same steps/create the same result. 

Can anyone help me with this as this really helped me smooth skin tone quickly without having to use Frequency Separation? Thanks so much!

 

[Callum]

Hi Ctphoto2115,

Welcome to the forums

The closest thing to Blend If in Affinity is the Blend Range button it can be found in my attached screenshots.

Thanks

Callum

[R C-R]

The Affinity Photo - Blend Ranges video tutorial may be worth a look.

[Dia]

Not sure if you still need this, but in case someone else is searching the forums and comes across this. 

This is how you'd retouch skin in Affinity Photo

 

 

[firstdefence]

In a nutshell, Blend If does pretty much what Luminosity masks do: It masks out part of a layer based on the luminosity of pixels.

https://photographylife.com/blend-if-photoshop