Try posting just a segment, perhaps one including their faces.
I prefer the highpass sharpen method (make a merged dupe layer, use highpass filter, set blend mode to overlay or one of the other contrast blend modes).
Check out our tutorial section for another interesting sharpening technique, this one from Jakaleena (called "faux sharpening", I think).
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Thanx for those great tips, i cant seem to get the image file size to a maximum to upload without losing quality, but i will tinker about with the techniques u have suggestedLeave a comment:
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A possibility is to gently use the dodge & burn tools, mostly the burn tool here. The best way is to add a new layer, then fill the new layer with 50% gray. Do that by going to Edit>Fill and in the dialogue box that pops up look for 50% gray and choose that. Then change the blend mode of this layer to soft light. The gray will disappear, but you can dodge and burn on this layer.
Keep it on the subtle side and you can create a nice illusion of the details of the faces being sharper.
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This is pretty small to try anything on. Having said that, here is a version obtained by selecting their faces and creating a new layer with just the faces. Then ran unsharp mask on that.
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Hi all
Another newbie here! I just wanna say first, what a great site, there certainly is a lot of talent out there. My problem is this photo. I want to make the faces more focused. I've tried unsharpen & other sharpening plug-ins to no avail. Any help would be appreciated. Keep up the good work all!!
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Dodging and burning can be problematic at best. One alternative method I use occasionally is to create a new layer, set mode to 'multiply' and turn the opacity WAY down, then paint with black and/or white (or gray). I feel it gives me more control, plus it also seems to be more tolerant of errors. And...05-20-2002, 12:27 AM
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I was watching a compositing video a while back where I saw the artist do something which is new to me. Sorry, I do not have the link to the video anymore but I believe it was a Lynda video.
Anyway...
The artist places an object in the scenery and then goes about the usual...03-20-2017, 09:05 PM -
Iv'e seen it asked here before but I can't find a solid answer and I want to get to the bottom of this problem so I know how to avoid/correct it. I use two different methods for dodging and burning. Either I create a curves layer, mask it and paint with white, or I create a new layer, set it to soft...01-05-2010, 03:38 AM
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So I am fond of using all different kinds of dodge and burn techniques. Sometimes I like to dodge and burn with color on different blend modes... sometimes using softlight or overlay blend modes with neutral shades, sometimes I use curves. I just do it by feel with a sort of intuition about the color...11-21-2011, 10:41 PM
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