Today I used the  retouching technique I recently learned about and applied it to a kids portrait.  The final black and white image was made using a single color channel rather that a desaturation layer.  I really wanted to get the skin to look like porcelain.

I found a tutorial on a technique used for portrait retouching that is very good at retaining detail while retouching skin.  Frequency separation, is when you retouch an image on two layers. One that preserves detail and one that is just tone and color. So that when combined the two layers produce the corrected retouched …