Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Make photos pop - selective sharpening

I've done a little guide already once showing off selective sharpening, here's another good example.

Touchdown

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The background has a nice blur to it, but the bird needed to be sharpened.

here's the starting image with level adjustments already



And here is a layer with just the bird sharpened and everything else masked out



Then the lower layer is added back (to being visible) and you get the selectively sharpened image...

Touchdown



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1 comments:

Kate said...

aha- you have let us in on one of your tricks! Thanks- need to try this (using PS Elements).