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Step Five: Turn the Texture layer back on by clicking where its Eye icon used to be, click on it in the Layers panel to make it active, and go to Image>Apply Image. In the Apply Image dialog, make sure the Layer selected is the Color layer and set the Blending mode to Subtract. The Scale should be 2 with the Offset at 128. Click OK. The image will turn gray, but we’ll fix that in the next step.
Step Six: Change the blend mode of the Texture layer to Linear Light near the top left of the Layers panel. This will allow us to work in the two individual layers. Group the layers together by Shift-clicking both frequency sepa- ration layers (Texture and Color) in the Layers panel to select them and pressing Command-G (PC: Ctrl-G).
Step Seven: Look over the image and identify areas that require immediate attention. There are several tools that can be used to get the job done. The Healing Brush, Clone Stamp, and Patch tools are all great options, depending on what works best for your workflow. Also, it’s great to have a variety of tools, as some work better for certain areas. While working in the Color layer, we can use the Patch tool to begin the process of eve- ning out the skin tone. Select the area you’d like to even out and drag it over an area of skin that you’re trying to match. Repeat this as necessary until the skin is more uniform in toning. This will get rid of the most glaring differences.
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