Most simple skin smoothing methods have the problem that they eliminate all the skin details. Skin Retouch offers an easy and powerful solution to avoid this: Blur the skin but preserve the details! Skin Retouch is also useful for wrinkle removal and other beauty retouch tasks.

Skin Retouch uses a technique with the scary name frequency separation which is commonly used for beauty retouch in Photoshop. Skin Retouch brings this technique to After Effects as a one click action. Its main application is to smooth the skin while preserving the details. But it is also useful for removing wrinkles and doing other beauty retouch work.

The basic idea of frequency separation is to split the image into two components:

• the high frequencies - a high pass filter repesenting the skin details
• the low frequencies - all the remaining image information

Instead of blurring the entire image (which would destroy all skin details), we only blur the low frequencies. Finally, the blurred low frequencies are combined again with the skin details to obtain the end result.

Requires After Effects CC 2015, CC 2014, CC, CS6, CS5.5, CS5, CS4