(You can make out her eyelashes very nicely in this scale level for instance). Stray hairs will sometimes individually show up here as well. These are the smallest scale contributors to the pores and fine lines. Wavelet scale 1It may be hard to see, but the finest details reside here.
We'll use a 100% crop from Martina above: If you're not sure what that means, it might help to see it in action. This is basically frequency separation on your image. This means that we can suppress data at a certain scale level to keep it from contributing to our final reconstructed image. Each of these layers is set to recombine using the Grain merge layer mode, meaning that each layer is added to the previous one to build back up to the final image. Wavelet DecomposeWhat the WD filter plugin will do is to separate your layer into multiples layers with different sized details on each one and a final residual layer with all the rest of the information. The first image was graciously provided by Kelly Ealy for demonstration here, and was offered on this Model Mayhem practice thread. I'd recommend going to grab one of those images (because really, who doesn't like looking at pretty Swedish girls?). If you want to practice some of the things I will be talking about, Flickr user Erik Olsson has licensed both Hoodie and Martina as CC-BY-SA-NC. Oh, that's right, I mentioned Wavelet Decompose earlier!
#Wavelet decompose gimp 2.8 download skin
If only there was some way to be able to modify the tones of the skin separately from the pores and wrinkles (and separate again from blemishes or freckles). All in an attempt to either smooth the tones of the skin, or to minimize the appearance of pores/wrinkles. You lose a ton of detail and end up with a smeared looking mess. That is the problem with trying to use a gaussian blur on the base image to "smooth" the skin.