Affinity Photo macros: Beauty retouching

Macros for beauty retouching in Affinity Photo: automate your workflow

When retouching portraits for beauty, you use the same techniques over and over again. Therefore, use these 22 macros for frequency separation, dodge and burn or applying blush in the future, which partially automate your processes. All the layers you need to edit skin, eyes, mouth and hair are prepared - and you'll save a huge amount of time!

22 specialized macros make the beauty retouching of portraits in Affinity Photo easier for you
Start editing skin, eyes, mouth and hair directly with the appropriate layers
Faster implementation: Frequency separation, dodge and burn, blush application and much more
Local and customizable: you decide where and how much to retouch

Open your digital beauty case and concentrate only on the portrait areas you want to retouch.

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content: 22 Assets/Templates
Licence: private and commercial Rights of use

Examples of use

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Examples: Hair, eyes, skin and lips - retouching is quicker with the macros.
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Example: Select the appropriate macro and paint in the areas to be retouched.
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Example: From gentle to strong - you decide the intensity of the beauty retouching yourself.
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Example: Import the macros and get started - for a gallant retouching workflow!
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Example: Just a few brushstrokes and the hair shines.

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Video tutorial on how to use the retouching macros in Affinity Photo

Would you like to rely on the effectiveness of our 22 macros for your retouching workflow? Then watch this video tutorial to see how to import the macros and use them effectively. Matthias Petri shows you which macros are suitable for what and how you can use them to enhance the skin, hair, mouth and eyes of your portraits.

Macros for beauty retouching in Affinity Photo

Macros for beauty retouching in Affinity Photo: frequency separation, dodge and burn

Download four macros for Affinity Photo to support you in your retouching workflow. The macro for frequency separation creates a layer for the high frequency and therefore for editing the structures. You edit the colors on the other layer for the low frequency.

Two macros are available for retouching with Dodge and Burn: With the manual macro, you decide yourself where you want to lighten or darken areas of the image using the dodge and burn function. The automatic macro provides you with an already prepared dodge-and-burn layer.

Finally, you can use the macro to bring out details and emphasize the structures of your image. You can also use the opacity of the layers to adjust the strength of your retouching. Four macros for a gain in effectiveness in your retouching work with Affinity Photo!

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Macros for beauty retouching in Affinity Photo: Retouching skin

Download seven macros for Affinity Photo to support you in your retouching workflow.

Use the macros to edit the skin of portraits: remove blemishes and reddish spots, apply pink blush, emphasize the contours and skin texture or use digital powdering.

After importing the macros, select the variant you need. Affinity Photo automatically creates layers and a mask on which you can continue working. Grab the paintbrush, set the foreground color to white and paint on the mask in the areas of the portrait where you want the retouching to take effect. Use the brush settings and the opacity of the layers to determine how strong your edits will be.

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Macros for beauty retouching in Affinity Photo: Editing eyes

Download four macros for Affinity Photo to support you in your retouching workflow.

Use the macros to edit the eyes of portraits: Change the eye color to blue, grey, brown or green. Give the iris a luminous sheen. Highlight the whites of the eyes and eyebrows.

After importing the macros, select the variant you need. Affinity Photo automatically creates layers and a mask on which you can continue working. Grab the paintbrush, set the foreground color to white and paint on the mask in the areas of the portrait where you want the retouching to take effect. Use the brush settings and the opacity of the layers to determine how strong your edits will be.

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Macros for beauty retouching in Affinity Photo: mouth and lips

Download five macros for Affinity Photo to support you in your retouching workflow.

Use the macros to edit the mouth of portraits: You will receive two macros to give the lips more expression. You can also soften the lips with additional macros, apply lip gloss and change the color of the lips to pink, brown, purple, red and pink.

After importing the macros, select the variant you need. Affinity Photo automatically creates layers and a mask on which you can continue working. Grab the paintbrush, set the foreground color to white and paint on the mask in the areas of the portrait where you want the retouching to take effect. Use the brush settings and the opacity of the layers to determine how strong your edits will be.

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Macros for beauty retouching in Affinity Photo: enhancing hair

Download two macros for Affinity Photo to support you in your retouching workflow.

Use the macros to edit the hair in portraits: you'll receive a macro that you can use to add highlights to the hair or enhance existing highlights. With another macro, you can add shine and texture to the hair.

After importing the macros, select the variant you need. Affinity Photo automatically creates layers and a mask on which you can continue working. Grab the paintbrush, set the foreground color to white and paint on the mask in the areas of the portrait where you want the retouching to take effect. Use the brush settings and the opacity of the layers to determine how strong your edits will be.

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Details of the content

These macros prepare your retouching layers in Affinity Photo!

Prepare layers, retouch skin - prepare layers, add gloss to lips - prepare layers, edit the iris ... You can already see what you can easily do without when it comes to beauty retouching: preparing the necessary layers. This task is now taken over by the 22 retouching macros for Affinity Photo!

For all those who want to carry out their beauty retouching more quickly

Of course, every portrait is different - a skin blemish here, too little plasticity there and an extremely blotchy, reddened skin there. You use your tools accordingly, sometimes the paintbrush, sometimes the dodge brush, sometimes the clone brush. But no matter which retouching technique you choose, you always have to create special layers. This can take seconds or even minutes - but can quickly add up to hours if you have several photos.

This is exactly where our retouching macros come in: Do you want to perform a frequency separation? Then load the corresponding macro and get started straight away. Or would you like to recolor the lips? Start the macro and apply pink, brown, purple, red or pink. With the help of the opacity of the tools you use and the layers, you can of course decide for yourself how strong the retouching effect will be.

These macros for effective portrait editing are included

Beauty retouching in Affinity Photo - your faster way from the original image to the retouched portrait with a total of 22 macros from skin and hair to mouth and eyes:

Techniques: Frequency separation, manual and automated dodge and burn, highlighting details
Skin: blemishes, redness, powdering, blush, skin color, contours and skin texture
Eyes : change eye color, add shine to iris, highlight whites of eyes and brows
Mouth : enhance lips (two variations), soften, apply lipstick and lip gloss
Hair : Draw in highlights and enhance hair

Import macros, start and retouch with the paintbrush

After importing, click on the desired macro. Affinity Photo creates the layers and masks automatically. For all macros that affect the skin, eyes, mouth and hair, paint with a soft, white paintbrush on the black-filled mask. This is how you define the areas in which the beauty retouching should take effect . Tip: Pay attention to the settings of the paintbrush and select, for example, a low opacity and hardness, a low flow and distance for a rather soft retouch.

Frequency separation, dodge & burn and details

The macro for frequency separation creates two layers. You edit the structures on the high frequency layer and the colors of your image on the low frequency layer. Ideal for retouching the skin of people, for example. With the help of two macros for Dodge and Burn , you can give your subjects a more three-dimensional appearance. The manual macro prepares layers on which you can brighten and darken the desired image areas yourself using the dodge and burn function. The automatic macro immediately provides you with a ready-made dodge-and-burn layer. Finally, you can bring out the details and emphasize the structures of your image. Start the download now!