Not as sophisticated as Moose's operation but, when sharpening
portraits, I often sharpen the entire image until I have the eyes, lips,
nostrils and possibly jewelry where I want them. But that may have an
adverse effect on skin. So I add a duplicate layer and then apply a
slight gaussian blur to the entire image until the skin looks right.
Then add a mask to that layer and paint the mask completely black with
the paint bucket. That brings the underlying sharpened image back.
Then just use a small paintbrush with white paint on the mask to
selectively unsharpen the skin. Sometimes I also do the inverse by
having a partially blurred layer on top and selectively allowing the
eyes, lips, etc from the sharpened layer underneath to come through.
Men and women are also usually treated a bit differently. The men won't
be softened as much as the women.
Chuck Norcutt
usher99@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Thanks for that very clear dissertation. I wondered how you did that.
> Mike
>
>
> All of my sharpening is done in new layers and I click the top one on
> and off to evaluate the effect. I then often adjust opacity and fairly
> often apply masking to tune the sharpening. With NI I sometimes apply
> it
> twice, once with and once without resharpening, then mask the layers to
> get stronger NR in shadow and low detail areas and retain more detail
> elsewhere. I'm just not seeing color shifts when I do this stuff, so
> that's a non-issue for me.
>
> Moose
>
>
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