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Make details pop
Explore the possibilities of detail
enhancement, with four techniques
that accentuate texture using
unexpected approaches
James Abbott
James is a professional
photographer who
specialises in landscape
and portraits. He’s an
advanced Photoshop
user and has created
hundreds of tutorials.ven with the best lenses
in the world, capable of
resolving the most detail
possible in high-resolution
cameras, there are still
ways you can improve the appearance
of detail in your images. I’m not talking
about absolute sharpness, but rather
the use of colour-based enhancements
to emphasise and accentuate the
appearance of fine detail.
The most obvious way you can increase
detail is to sharpen images, but the problem
here is that you can only sharpen an image
so much before you begin to introduce
artefacts and other forms of image
degradation. It may sound contradictory,
but there is only so much sharpening you
can apply to any image, so to enhance
detail and really make it stand out, you
need to take some more novel approaches.
Here are four techniques that make detail
and texture pop out of images without the
associated problems of oversharpening.
Give them a try today!E
Before
GET THE LOOK1
Use mono
Click on the Create New Fill Or
Adjustment Layer icon at the
bottom of the Layers Panel –
it’s the half-black half-white circle – and
select Black & White. Since the image is
predominantly made up of yellows and
greens, we’ll focus on these sliders. Set
Yellows to 140 and Greens to -40, then
close the dialogue box. The image will
be too light after this change, so create
a Levels Adjustment Layer and set the
Black point below the histogram to 40.FILE & VIDEO
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