Affinity Photo - Frequency Separation Tutorial

[@frankbelt633]

Wow. Thank you so much. I especially appreciate the part about removing shine from face.

[@WilliamCruzing4photos]

Amazing tutorial. Thank you for your time. Just purchased Affinity Photo after being a long time user of Photoshop and I can honestly say, I am liking all the tools I am seeing on Affinity Photo and the all the tutorials I have been seeing are great.

[@GavinKyleGreen_]

William Cruz why did you switch?

[@zardosspinosa6944]

I think this is an excellent vid and is easier and probably works better than my current technique where I use gaussian blur. Although you can reduce the opacity of the gaussian blur it still tends to blur the details more than this technique. That said using gaussian blur is good for evening out tonal variations so it does have its place and is good for younger female skin. I tried both these techniques on a young woman who had quite patchy skin and preferred he final look with Olivios technique. You certainly dont want to get too bogged down with this stuff and the easier the technique the better. Less is more. That said I have spent hours looking at clips and trying different methods. I did see this approach in another vid, but couldn't quite get my head around it. This vid made much more sense. Thanks a lot!

[@OlivioSarikas]

Hi Zardos, yes this is a lot more versatile than just blurring the picture. Blurring is a quick fix, but if you have a bit more time, this is the way to go and gives better and crisper results in the end :)

[@zardosspinosa6944]

Many thanks for your reply. I did have a look at the video that you suggested, but never really found anything of value in that for me, although I may investigate black and white one day. The bottom line is that I use an old version of Lightroom for most of my editing, but I bought Affinity photo for mainly 3 things, the liquify tool, the inpainting brush and the frequency separation. I also used the clone brush tool, very handy for removing large unwanted areas and filling in the blank spaces on a panorama shot which also worked really well. I am using gradually more tools but I am still limited in my navigation skills in AP. Of course you cannot do these things in Lightroom and I didn't want to get hooked into continuous payments for PS, just opted for AP which for me is going to be far better value. I know there are a million things you can do with AP and that is gobsmacking in itself, but although I do enjoy editing my photos, I dont want to get bogged down in AP where I can achieve the same effect more simply in LR. LR is far better for downloading a full card as thumb nails and normal processing, for the finer detail stuff I just upload straight from LR to AP. I have a real good system which suits me just fine. Portrait editing can be more frustrating, and i wonder whether I was more happy using the simpler technique in LR. But I am stoked that I have nailed Ezras frequency separation technique, but I still haven't found a cool technique in AP for portrait dodge and burn, what I have seen so far looks way too complicated.

[@Charles_Fryer]

Best explanation I've seen so far. Thank you so much

[@Mooreyameen]

Thanks!

[@OlivioSarikas]

Welcome!

[@CyanCooper]

Awesome tutorial, I will definitely be using this!

[@mandalayard774]

Wow Iearned so much in 10 min. Thank you!

[@OlivioSarikas]

Awesome, Mandala. Happy i could help :)

[@HMaxTube11]

Great tools well presented👍

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thanks 👍

[@tmlim526]

Fantastic Tutorial! Thank you!!

[@andersistbesser]

Wonderful tutorial!

[@brucekennedy5274]

Aha, so this is similar to using a high pass layer in Photoshop. Great tutorial thanks. I love Affinity and plan to use it more and more.

[@OlivioSarikas]

yes, i think so. it's a very useful tool :)

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@Jase Titan instablaster :)

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[@apehands4481]

very well explained and golden information. thank you much!

[@guidovernocchi]

That's a fantastic tutorial

[@Iamtongue]

This looks alot faster than Photoshop 🤯🤯🤯

[@BenjaminGib]

So good. Watching in Oct 2021.

[@vimeto21]

thank you for the great tutorials. just switched from photoshop to affinity photo and your tutorials are helping a lot

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, Vicente A. Merino. You are welcome :)

[@GavinKyleGreen_]

Why did you switch?

[@Wedow12]

Wow! Love all your videos!

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, Christina :)

[@niallmanchester]

Excellent tutorial, even for post processing dummies, like me.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, Niall

[@terry2228]

After playing with affinity using this good video thank you. I made a discovery I am going to share with you first, I have not seen anyone doing it🤫 if you duplicate the high frequency only I think its sharper than the sharpness feature in Affinity it was an accident discovery but feel good Wow factor can you try it to see if I am right

[@vizcayamario]

Great video, well explained!!! I did learn a lot, thank you!

[@OlivioSarikas]

You are welcome. Thank you for watching :)

[@vuitblack]

Hi Olivio; I discovered your channel few weeks ago, I had the Affinity from 2 or 3 years ago but never used because i feel confortable with Photoshop but I dont like the policy of mensual subscription at all it's very expensive for a non professional use. Thanks to your channel I have decided to make affinity my main program. Well one of my main PHOTO area is Photo Diving and I found a big problem in some of my photo.... The problem is that In many of my pictures appear some particles floating in the water (its normal by position of the flash) its easy to correct but some time with animals its impossible because i can't repeat the photo. I think that with this tutorial I can solve some of the problems but not all, i would like to know if i can send you one of my pictures and you help me to correct this problem. Thanks in advance.

[@gespo1560]

Thank you for the vid. Really helpful and learned what Frequency Seperation is really doing. Cheers

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, Gabriel :) Check out my other stuff, i cover a lot of the basic tolls and some quick tricks too :)

[@judehphotography]

Awesome, thank you!

[@4GArt]

Good Tutorial!

[@circulair04]

Concise and an interesting narrative presentation. Great tutorial...🤓

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, you are welcome :)

[@harveymedia7]

Thank you so much 😊

[@dopamining7621]

Incredibly useful.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Hi dopaminig, thank you. Happy to help :)

[@tinapatel841]

Very good tutorial. I am new to photo editing but this was g8 for me.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, Tina. Happy i could help :)

[@subhabiswasSB]

Nice

[@104paul]

Well explained thank you 🤘🏼

[@PowNyTales]

Hey! Thank you for the video! Is it a RAW-Pic, you are working at? Or you can also splitt frequencies on JPG?

[@OlivioSarikas]

no it's a jpg, but you can open raw files in affinity photo too

[@harveymedia7]

Thank you so much

[@zardosspinosa6944]

Had another look, I think I now prefer the gaussion blur technique certainly for young women, tends to give a more beautiful luminosity to their face, but Olivios technique certainly better for guys.

[@OlivioSarikas]

You can use both. Check this video on how to get a soft shine on the picture. You can limit it with a mask just to the skin if you want :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmWUh4OKbb-UmcU