How to Sharpen Eyes in Photoshop

[ad_1] Every eye has a story to tell and as editors it's our job to grab the attention of the audience - it's the eye and you know that very well that one of the best ways to grab the attention to attract the attention is sharpness right and that's why we have portraits with Shallow depth of field and this firstly so that the audience directly looks into the face instead of focusing on the background hey there this is animation today I'm going to give you three ways to sharpen eyes in Photoshop all the ways are non-destructive and if it Doesn't make any sense to you you are at the right place why three ways again because there's three simple reasons number one how much time do you want to give your image - number two to what extent do you want to go in editing that Image to what extent do you want to go in bringing out the details and number three is very interesting how much your client paid you so sit down any further ado let's get started but before I start spoiler alert the last method will either plumb your mind or will make you Curse me saying that why didn't you tell that to me before I'm sorry about that but the first two methods are also very essential so make sure that you stay tuned so let's begin yeah alright let's begin so here we are in Photoshop and this is one of the stock photos that are Downloaded using this is free using the free plug-in called excels and this is one of the best plugins has ever used this plugin allows you to search through stock photos from inside of Photoshop and import them directly as a layer isn't that amazing guys if you want to Check it out do click on the link right here or here so I have made a video about it it's absolutely free guys they have not paid me as just I'm showing my love to the developer all right so this is the image - the first thing that you Need to make sure is that you convert your layer into a smart object to do that all you need to do you need to write it on it and click on convert to smart object I have already done it so that's why it's showing this symbol Let's make the lid a little bit bigger let's make this come nails bigger to make the sometimes we'll go right click on it and click large thumbnails I'm I was always a sign of large thumbnails alright so the next thing that you need to do is Zoom in to the ice once you zoomed in okay zooming in is very essential don't ignore that because you need to see how it's being sharpened once you zoom then go to filter sharpen mod sharpen all right so this is very smart form of sharpening so let's move the area where You want to sharpen the image now in this case it's the eye all right so what are these values let me quickly explain what these values actually mean and I would request you to play with these letters to get a better understanding of what they actually do but let me just Give you a brief understanding okay so what is the amount slider amount slider is the amount of sharpness as the name suggests the amount of sharpness that you need to apply to your image think of it like this the difference between the highest peak and the deepest Valley That's the amount and as you decrease the amount the difference decreases as you increase the amount the difference increases the difference between the highest peak and the deepest Valley now think of it like this the more the amount you have the more the depth your sharpness will have the more the depth Your peaks and valleys will have now what is the radius think of radius as the size of the texture if the radius is too low the noise is which is the smallest texture will be accentuated pronounced if the radius is little large objects bigger than that will be Pronounced if the laser radius is much larger or objects much bigger than that will be pronounced so so on and so forth all right so you need to find a happy place where the objects that you want to accentuate like the iris like the eyeball are more pronounced okay we'll Get to that in a minute and reduce noise you don't have to focus on that for now all right so let's look at the first two values and how we use it okay let's look at the amount so first off when you and the smart sharpen increase the amount All the way to 500 okay now this might sound strange but that's what I mean now edit the radius what radius look good looks good to you so if you see look if the radius is 0.2 you see only the noise accentuated this is the pre section only the noise accentuated if You go a little bit further like 0.7 C still the noise is more prevalent now if I go ahead and increase it to like say for now it's giving me a good result how about if I increase it all the way to 12 now this is looking ugly why because Bigger objects are being accentuated I want smaller objects than that so you need to find a happy place in this case I think it's four point five because I already tried this image with that value four point three will also do but that's four point five now reduce noise now When you apply sharpness you have observed that sharpness along with it brings a lot of noise so reduce noise helps you counter that noise remove that annoying but here's the deal here's the catch the catch is that if you increase the radius noise slider the sharpness will also fade away it's Counterintuitive alright so if you really increase the reduce noise as you can see the sharpness is also going away okay so you don't want to keep the value too high because if you do so watch the sharpness is going away we don't want that to happen alright so let's look Let's try it with this valley see it's going away so we want somewhere around seven ten ish so around it's a good value I guess and once you're satisfied with this before clicking okay remember the amount was all the way to five hundred reduce the amount we don't want - much sharpness to around say how about this one a little more maybe alright click OK now this is not the final version of sharpness that you're going to apply to your image now click OK once you click OK you even have more control now this sharpness what what's this this Sharpness is applied all over the image now it's necessary that we control the places where the sharpness is being applied since in this case we want to apply sharpness to just I what do you think we will do to just restrict the effect just to the eye masking right and Since you see this is a smart object we will have a mask for the filter and this is a filter for the smart object a filter for smart object is gone smart filter have a look smart filter now click on that smart filter click on that white box press ctrl I it turns Black now the effect is also gone from all over the image now I want to apply the effect I want to make the effect appear only in those areas where I wanted to appear so that to do that all you need to do take a brush okay make Sure white color selected if it's any other color just click on this small icon just this resets everything if it's like red or something I'll give you a little tip just click on it it will reset everything if it's black and white the opposite way press X it will just You know switch things here and there all right take white and start painting over the areas where you want the sharpness to be there also make sure that you want to have the maximum sharpness in the iris pupil right and then you have the then you want to have The sharpness in the eyelashes you don't want to have too much sharpness in the eyelashes why because that will create an ugly halo effect have a look so if I apply sharpness here look how ugly it's looking at you're not looking natural alright so you want to apply little Sharpness in that area so full sharpness here right and don't you dare apply sharpness on the eye white so if you want to make somebody beautiful don't apply sharpness on the iyc as if you are creating ghostly feeling then an old man is staring wanna show wrinkles and stuff That may be the case but in this you don't want to do that edges of the eyes yes you want a little sharpness there also eyelashes just a little sharpness to apply just a little sharpness decrease the slow to around 20 and start painting a little bit on the eyelashes Not too much right all right so so that's sharpening eyes using this method also after you do that let's together before and after first so this is the before this is the after isn't that amazing also don't go overboard the sharpen all right now if you think the effect of sharpening is Too much or you can do you can double click on this you see this little icon right these little sliders kind of icon click on it and once you do an option will appear and this option is really cool and just trying to say something till the loading finishes because this Is a large image all right so let's wait oh my god oh my oh my god oh my oh my oh my god oh my god baby let me love you can there's so many ways to laugh yeah mmm make you dance so many so watch this dialog box it's blending options smart Sharpen alright you can decrease the opacity of the filter right so if you if you think the effect is too much you can go ahead and decrease the opacity to the point where you like and there you go suppose you want the effect like 79 percent click OK and there you have it This method is completely SuperDuper non-destructive so whenever you might want to change the values you can always go ahead and double click on this smart sharpen and the values will again appear you can always tweak it later right so this is one of the cool features of this Alright let's cancel this and let's move on to the second method so alright let's delete the Smart Filters ok the second method is also quite interesting and it's also non-destructive so make a duplicate of this layer to do that press ctrl or command J this makes a duplicate So once this duplicate is also a smart object so it has to have a smart object all right then go to filter other high pass right then time the value of radius will be same as the value that we used in smart sharpen remember the areas that you want to Accentuate the size of the texture okay so for that image what's worth four point five all right if you are using this method for the first time then what you need to do you need to find the value where you find all the edges which you want to pronounce in other words if The radius is too low as you can see only you can see noise you don't want that and if it's too high you can see no details every picture that kind of blurry stuff so you need to find a place where it is all gray but the details That you want to accentuate all right so for this four point four four point five worked click OK and once you do that change the blend mode to overlay and there you have it this is the before this is the after now to limit the Effect only to the Aisne all you need to do you know that do the same thing click on the smart filters press ctrl I know that's the wrong method you guys are you guys get carried away so easily ok so why it won't work in this because In this the smart sharpen was a filter itself right in this we are leveraging overlay and filters at the same time so if I just use this smart filters this will kind of become funky let's do this let's try it this will become funky this is supposed to be make it funky why Because we are leveraging both filters and the overlay blend mode in this case that's the reason why we created a duplicate we want the effected duplicate to be applied only to the specific eye so make sure you click on this layer not the smart filter then create a mask Control eye and one of the ways one of the easiest way to create an opposite mask is that press and hold alt and then create a mask all right all right press and hold alt and then create a mask it will already generate a black huh so you Need not go create and control eye you get the idea all right then take a brush white color selected start painting over it and there you go and you know what the advantage of this is if you want the extra two hundred percent sharpness all You need to do you need a cruddy need a copy sheet is layer and you have that you wanted to send sharpness if you want 300% sharpness copy it again duplicate it you have three hundred percent sharpness and that's the advantage that you have with high pass alright so let's Go back and move on to the third method let's delete all this now before I move on to the third method and this is the easiest method ever and this also gives an excellent results so you need not curse me I always save the best for the last Alright create a new layer this is very simple fairly simple create a new layer blank layer you remember we had an old friend if you are old Photoshop user we had an old friend called sharpen tool some of you might say why to use it it's obsolete let me tell you something the Reason why the sharpen tool is still there in Photoshop it's because the matte the algorithm has been improved amazingly and and you'll see how non-destructive it can go alright not actually but yes it can go non-destructive how select the sharpen tool select it okay don't curse me don't blame me this is Cool you will get that all right you have to do nothing create a new less we let the sharpen tool and make sure this is essential make sure protect details and sample or legs is checked and once they are checked and you are on the new layer Zoom in and just simply paint over the areas which you need to sharpen also make sure that you set a nice value for the strength think of strength as opacity or flow if you have 100% strength the strength of the brush will be hundred percent forty percent forty percent strength it's kind of Self-explanatory let sharpening less strength more sharpening more strength so I usually work with around like thirty five forty percent so that I can paint it all over again so I have a habit of painting it for quite a while so that you some areas I want to sharpen more some Areas I want to sharpen lists so I want to have a light brush so that I sharpen again and again on the areas that I want to sharpen more all right so sharpen on the areas where you want to bring out the details okay here maybe A little here okay let's do that let's increase the strength all right so that's pretty much it now watch the magic we created a new layer and this sharpness is on a new layer if you think the sharpness is too much decrease the opacity and fish you go and watch this If you're wondering what's in this leg just let's just turn off sit and watch the areas that we sharpened isn't that amazing all right so let's increase the opacity back to hundred and let's see it carefully the areas that we sharpen so that's how you sharpen eyes in Photoshop Now I give you three ways to sharpen eyes what's very smart sharpen high fast sharp until right now which one should you use well if you have a lot of time if you have a considerable amount of time to spend behind an image and if your client has paid you too much then No doubt you have to use smart sharpen because smart sharpen is the most advanced and the best sharpening Photoshop has to offer and it's with available with the latest versions of Photoshop it does give you a lot more control so it's completely non-destructive and it's just one Filters unlike hi Phil to where you have to make duplicates if you want more and opacity and stuff there are things that you have to do with it well next comes high pass now you want to use high pass when you're not working with a lot of Lists you want to use high pass then you don't want one too much complexity yet you want good results you don't want to mess with that amount reduce noise shadows highlights all those complex things that you have in smart sharpen you don't have to mess with best yet You'll get amazing results with high pass but also if you want to go beyond 500% sharpness you can always duplicate your high pass layer and and you have it so high-pass is for everything but if you have too many layers in your image if it's a composite Then high-pass is not your way to go but you can always apply high-pass after merging the layers at the top now next comes sharpen 2 if your client has not paid you much and she's bargaining a lot and also at the same time if you yourself for your own images don't have Much time but you have to publish it on Facebook social media you want to do things quickly you quickly can go ahead and yet if you want best results amazing result the sharpening tool is really your way to go also if you are posting an online or social media nobody will Ever be able to notice whether you use high-pass sharpen tool or smart sharpen so that pretty much wraps up the session I hope this video was helpful if this was make sure to give us a like and also don't forget to subscribe to not just subscribe to combine Bell body so that You don't miss anything I'll see you guys in my next one till then stay tuned and make sure that you keep creating You You 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