Frequency Separation YouTube Tutorial

Frequency Separation Tutorial
Photoshop Tutorial: How to Retouch Skin Flawlessly with Frequency Separation

Context
I am forever looking to improve on my PORTRAITURE genre after seeking advice from the professionals who seem to all agree that Portrait Photography is where a budding photographer can actually have some headways financially.
Research
In the course of seeking to improve on my portraiture photography, I came across Los Angeles-based photo illustrator and commercial photographer Lee Varis 's Frequency Separation Tutorial on Vimeo. After watching the video, I found it enlightening and easy to follow and even with the very difficult procedures, I was able to easily copy the actions to improve my photographs.
Form
With willing guests/models at a wedding I recently attended and armed with my Canon 60D and my EF 50mm 1.8f II, I proceeded to take several beautiful shallow depths of field portraits. Without too much disturbance I was able to align the models to backgrounds where the colours, flowers and shapes can benefit greatly the portrait of the models in the foreground.
Content
I learnt to fix shiny skin using Frequency Separation by basically placing TEXTURE and COLOR/TONE in two separate layers, which allowed me to re-shape the photo whilst leaving the texture intact.

Self Directed
Frequency Separation Retouching Technique

Open Image and make a copy and do some spot healing to clear any unwanted blemishes.
Open a second copy and label it 'Texture' and label first copy 'Blur'
Turn off texture layer and highlight the blur layer.
Layer>smart object>convert to smart object
Filter>Blur>Caussian blur>Info box>set the radius to about 8 pixels an ok.
Turn on and highlight texture layer.
Image>Apply Image>apply image box>Select 'Blur' Layer>Blendingto'Subtract'>
Scale to 2>Offset to 128>Ok.
Change Blending to 'Linear Light'. Highlight the Blur layer and create a new layer and label layer 'recolour'. Zoom in closer to portrait and sample around the highlights with the eyedropper tool and brush away the highlights with the brush tool at opacity 22%. Select the Texture layer and create a new layer. Position the pointer mid-bottom of the new layer with the ALT button to initiate the right angle arrow then click the right mouse button. Label the layer, 'Retouch'
Set Foreground colour tool to white and opacity to 6%. With 

the brush tool, paint some light into the dark areas. Brighten the whites of the eyes and the teeth. Also, brighten the catchlight in the eyes.
Create a new layer, set the foreground colour to black, select the Gradient Tool and select the 2nd foreground gradient picker. 
Group all the other layers. 
Set the blending mode to Soft Light and drag the four sides to form a gradual halo.
File>Save As>Photoshop,PSD, PDD>Ok
Layer>Flatten Layer
File>Save As>type drop down>JPG, JPEG>Save>set image option to 4.9M, less than 5M>Ok> Click off the X to end.