Skin retouch with new retouch module in Darktable 2.6

[pphoto]

After watching several tutorials about frequence separation and wavelet decomposing on YouTube and experimenting around with Darktable and the wavelet decomposing from G’Mic in Gimp I finally think I got the basics now.

I took a picture from Play RAW and was able to improve the skin:

Moreover I hit the screen record button while I was working on the image and added subtitles afterwards:

Skin retouching with darktable

Original RAW:

[PlayRaw] Hillbilly portrait

Missing more portraits - with some, but not so many Pat’s beatuful women here-, I’m providing a grumpy old man from the hills, interrupted when shaving. My two b&w versions went the dt - gimp - pat beautify - dt way and are using dt watermark module for some temporary reasons and out of curiosity and possible fancyness. Published by the author, under the CC BY-SA licence. dcc_0013.cr2 (20.8 MB) [dcc_0013_dtus_g_dtus_05] [dcc_0013_dtus_g_dtus_06]

My sidecar file:
dcc_0013_01.cr2.xmp (15.0 KB)