Photoshop Beauty Photo Sharpening skills

Digital photos after the color correction and so on to save the file before saving, sharpening processing, there are 2 main purposes to do so: one is the restoration part of the color correction in the process of editing the loss of meticulous texture, the second is to repair the slight focus of the photo. Sharpening is a way to improve the clarity of your photos.

Sharpening processing of image quality is an irreversible damage operation, sharpening improper or sharp transition, will make the edge of the image of the transition blunt, dry, and some of the color halo and noise. Therefore there is rather sharpening insufficient, not sharpening the transition one says.

There are a lot of ways to sharpen. Commonly used and basic sharpening is Photoshop USM Filter, here to introduce the method is based on (US) Scott Kelby in the "Photoshop Digital Photo production book," A few of the professional sharpening technology, and added a number of personal understanding and experience for your reference.

The 2 methods of Mingdouri and brightness sharpening are simple to operate, it is a method that many professional photographers like and use frequently, and extreme boundary sharpening can gain more control over the image sharpening boundary, but the operation steps should be more complicated; Beauty photo sharpening has a certain pertinence, selective sharpening method is also suitable for sharpening, Sharpening the brightness and extreme boundary sharpening all the methods, it is in the original sharpening the foundation of the increase operation.

We still go to Canon's official website to download a 1Ds Marrk III sample, take its local demonstration operation demo.

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Final Effect Diagram:

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Before sharpening, should finish the mm for beauty, decoration and other editing operations.

Beauty, decoration of many methods, there are many software, Plug-ins available, can also hand-operated, this is already beauty completed photo layer:

OK, let's start by introducing the sharpening method of beauty.

Beauty photos (especially close-up photos) sharpening requirements and scenery, still life and other subject photos sharpening requirements are different, it requires us to improve the sharpness of photos at the same time, not to the beauty of the skin pores, wrinkles and any flaws become obvious.

So our sharpening operations have a clear selectivity and purpose:

1. Sharpen the eyes of mm, eyelashes, eyebrows, lips, hair, has been body ornaments, clothing and so on;

2. Sharpen the eye, nose, skin of the body properly;

3. Facial skin is not sharp or slight sharpening.

The specific operation is as follows.

First step:

Enter the channel panel, hold down the CTRL key, and click on the "Red" color channel to get a selection.

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Why choose the "red" channel to get a constituency here?

Here is an explanation of the passage.

The passage is like a mask in a traditional darkroom, the traditional darkroom in the photo amplification, with a different mask placed on the film, through several occlusion exposure, the black cover of the place does not expose, white (should be transparent) mask is completely exposed to two of times to create. In the digital age, we are more convenient, because we have access, the channel white Place is to "exposure" (or let us choose to do processing) pixels, black is not the pixel.

The red channel best separates the skin from the other elements, just as it is prepared for our sharpening.

Step Two:

Click the RGB composite channel, go back to the Layers panel, and click the background copy layer.

Press the Ctrl+shift+i key to reverse the selection.

Press the CTRL+J key to copy the selection and get a new layer "Layer 1".

Step Three:

Apply USM Sharpening to layer 1, or my usual parameter, or 2 times.

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Well, to this sharpening has achieved a phased outcome.

What's going to be a selective modification of the content later. Selective modification with the previous steps of sharpening method does not necessarily link, it is not necessary, it can also be in the USM Sharpening, lab sharpening, brightness sharpening, extreme boundary sharpening, such as all sharpening methods based on the use of sharpening the improvement and improvement.

Fourth Step:

Click the Add Layer Mask button at the bottom of the layers panel to add a mask for layer 1

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Select a neutral brush. The brush size is determined on demand.

Choose a black brush to apply mm face skin and so do not need to sharpen the site.

Side of the painting to see the effect of careful repair. Where the black brush is applied, the sharpening effect disappears completely.

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Change the color of the brush and choose a gray brush.

Note: The Gray R, G, b three parameters are equal. I choose 160 here, of course, it can be other, such as 100 or 180,r=g=b=255 is white, r=g=b=0 is black.

For parts that need to be partially sharpened, such as a gray smear in the eyelids, the sharpening effect is partially dissipated.

You can choose the degree of sharpness of Gray in accordance with the needs of the "gray".

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Fifth Step:

Finally, change the blending mode of the sharpening layer to "brightness" and adjust the opacity of the layer to the desired position.

End of Sharpening:

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