Traditionally, if you use the Spot Healing Brush on a beauty image, you often get "plastic" blurring. If you use the Clone Stamp, you risk repeating patterns.
Have you tried Pixel Juggler? Let us know how it compares to your manual frequency separation workflow in the comments below. RA Beauty Retouch Panel 3.2 With Pixel Juggler
However, for professional portrait, wedding, and beauty photographers who need , this is arguably the best investment you can make after buying a camera. Pixel Juggler, specifically, justifies the price tag alone—it is the closest thing to "AI-level" texture preservation without the plastic look of automated apps. Traditionally, if you use the Spot Healing Brush
Use the panel’s "Visualize" button (which turns the image black and white with high contrast) to see uneven lighting. Use the D&B brushes provided by the panel to smooth out the light without touching the texture. Let us know how it compares to your
Click the "High Pass Frequency" button. The panel separates color (Low Freq) from texture (High Freq).