Best approach to bring back subtle skin texture when it’s barely present?

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Hi everyone,

I’m working on a beauty shot where the client asked me to bring back some fine skin details. The problem is that the original footage has very little texture to begin with, the skin is very bright.

I’ve already tried sharpening and frequency separation which helped a bit but I’m hitting the limit of what’s actually there.

Do you have any tips or favorite techniques in Flame to :

Selectively enhance what little high-frequency detail exists

Or subtly recreate believable skin texture without it looking fake on Moving face with potential motion

Any workflow ideas, Matchbox suggestions or tricks for combining real and synthetic detail would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks in advance !

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In the A2Beauty Matchbox you can choose ‘invert’ and it will enhance details instead of smoothing them. I’ve used this for a ‘before and after’ with a makeup product.

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Have you looked at crok-skin and crok-reskin. It exists specifically for this purpose. It procedurally creates matching skin textures you can blend with the existing skin.

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I’d use Flux Dev Detailer / Enhancer in Comfy with Flux Realism LoRa.

AI is perfect for these situations.

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