Amazing NEW TECHNOLOGY To Enhance Texture in Photoshop!

[Music] hi welcome back to the photoshoptrainingchannel.com i'm jesus ramirez in this video you're going to learn how the brand new texture slider in camera raw works and how you can use it to add amazing detail to your photos you're also going to learn the differences between the texture slider and the other detail enhancing tools in camera raw such as the sharpen slider dehaze and clarity also before we start i want to point out that all the information that you learned in this video could also be applied to lightroom cc or lightroom classic the tool works exactly the same way okay let's get started this is the image that we're going to work with today but before we get started with it we're going to start with a much much simpler graphic to explain some of the technicalities of how each of the detail enhancing sliders work so first i'm going to go into filter camera raw filter and this is where you're going to find all those sliders and they're right down here in the basic panel you can see the texture clarity and dehaze and texture is the new slider found in lightroom and in camera raw texture allows you to enhance the details and texture of a photo and it's actually very similar to clarity so if you're wondering what the difference is this video will explain it and i'm also going to compare it to the haze and sharpen because they all do something that's very similar which is enhanced contrast where contrast already exists in an image but in different ways so i'm going to explain the differences and we're going to start with the sharpening slider so i'm going to click on the detail panel and from here you have access to all the sliders that control sharpening you got to realize something that you have to realize is that photoshop can actually add detail to the image all you're doing is adding contrast and edges to create the illusion of detail let me show you how that works i'm going to drag all the sliders to the right and if i zoom in you'll see that i've added a lot of noise to the image that's before and after and what's happening here is that sharpening is adding contrast to high frequency components and if you don't know what frequency means that's okay we're going to come back to that in a moment but just to put it simply that's what this tool is doing is trying to find edges and then adding contrast to those edges to create the illusion of detail so that's what's happening here i'm going to reset the settings and i'm going to fit the image in view and i'm going to go back into the basic panel and now we'll look at texture clarity and dehaze we'll start with dehaze i'm going to increase the dehaze slider so you can see what happens and this adds an overall contrast to the image this slider is designed to reduce the effect of haze in a photo so that contrast brings up the detail and it also adds saturation we can't see that here of course because this is a black and white image but you will see how this works in the actual photo in a moment but just notice how it increases the overall contrast basically the only things that remain untouched are the blacks and the whites i'm going to double click on the dehaze slider to reset it and then i'll increase clarity clarity adds contrast to the mid tones see that how the contrast gets applied here in the mid tones that's what we're applying contrast notice that it's not as strong as the haze and then we have texture texture adds contrast to mid frequency areas and again if you don't know what frequency means that's okay we're going to look at that in a moment but just know that texture increases contrast in mid frequencies and notice that this image is pretty neutral in terms of frequencies so not much happens if i zoom in all the way you can see that i barely make a slight slight adjustment there there's not a lot of texture in this image so not much happens i'm going to cancel and i'm going to open this document to explain what frequency means so we have two layers a low frequency layer and a high frequency layer first of all what is frequency frequency is how often tone changes in a given area so if we're looking at the entire document that's going to be our given area you can see that this document is 800 by 400 pixels so that's our given area and you can see how we have these bars representing changes in tone in this second group we have the same area but now we have less frequent changes in tone so we can say that the layer on the bottom is a low frequency image and the one on top is a high frequency image in an actual photo however the image can be broken up into different frequencies there's high frequency details mid frequency features and low frequency areas and together they all make up the image so texture is targeting the mid frequencies basically something in between low frequency and high frequency somewhere in between there and that's what that slider is adjusting i'm going to right click on this layer and convert it into a smart object because you always want to work non-destructively a smart object is basically a container that you can apply adjustments distortions and filters non-destructively which means that you can come back and make adjustments so your adjustments are not permanent and that's the way that i recommend working especially when using camera raw next i'm going to go into filter camera raw filter and we're going to start working in the basic panel that's where we have these sliders that we saw just a moment ago but before i get to those i'm going to go back into the detail panel and from here i can increase the amount to add sharpening to the image i'll also increase the radius in detail just to bump all those up and see what's going on and if i zoom in you'll see that i've added a whole bunch of noise to the image before and after and the only way that i can stop it from affecting the entire image is if i use the masking slider and i'll fit in view just so you can see how that works this slider if you hold alt option on the mac and click and drag it to the right you can see the mask white reveals black conceals so when i drag to the right photoshop starts finding the edges of the image and it starts making the non edges or the low frequency areas darker so that we can apply the detail or that illusion of detail to the areas that are found near edges so you can use that if you want the tools in the basic panel don't have that feature so they're an overall adjustment to the image and let me just reset those sliders so i'm going to go into the camera raw defaults and we're going to look at dehaze and when i increase the haze this is also going to apply a contrast effect and the haze was designed to reduce haze in photos or at least create the illusion of less ace in a photo by applying a strong contrast and also increasing the saturation you can see how we saturated her face if i reset this slider by double clicking on it you can see how we definitely adjust the saturation of the image and create a strong contrast over the entire image clarity is contrast in the mid tones so again you have your darks highlights and right in the middle you have your mid tones we're adding contrast to the mid tones with clarity and it creates that illusion of more detail makes the image pop notice how we're not affecting saturation so i can bump this all the way to 100 and that saturation remains i'm just making pixels darker i'm creating more contrast and that's contrast in the mid tones and finally we have texture which is a brand new slider in camera raw and in lightroom and texture adds contrast and mid frequency area so when i click and drag this to the right you can see how i can make the details pop and it adds just a tiny bit of saturation if i zoom in and double click to reset the slider you can see how i'm just adding a tiny little bit of saturation not much and i'm only affecting those mid frequency areas which creates the illusion of more detail in texture so all these sliders are adding contrast and one simple way of thinking about it is that the further down you go down the list the stronger and broader the effect becomes so i'm going to fit the image in view so we can see the entire image and the way that you would use this new slider texture is by obviously clicking and dragging to the right to add more texture to the entire image or click and drag to the left to reduce the texture in the image it's up to you how you're going to use this slider it all depends on the image that you're working with and the effect that you're trying to apply one thing that i would recommend doing is working with this feature using any of the local adjustment tools either the radio filter graduated filter or the adjustment brush so what you can do is select the adjustment brush reset all the settings and then paint over the areas that you want to add detail to so for example her hair and just so that i can see where i'm painting i'm going to click on the mask and i'm going to paint and that's going to show me a red overlay and i'm painting over her hair and i'm not being very precise and that's okay this is just for the example obviously in your image you might want to adjust your local adjustment a little bit better make sure that you only get the areas that you intend to adjust but for the purposes of saving time it's not necessary to get a perfect mask for this tutorial but anyway i've selected her hair and now i can disable the mask and i can simply increase the texture and you can see how i create the illusion of more texture and it looks great another thing that you can do is click on new to create a new adjustment and enable the mask and i'm simply going to paint over her face and we can do one of two things we can either give her face more texture or smooth it a bit so i'm painting over her face and now i can disable the mask notice that the texture is still active at 58 which was my previous setting and that's okay so i can reduce the texture to soften her skin or increase it to add more detail to her skin obviously these examples are very extreme i would never go all the way to negative 100 or positive 100 on a portrait in my opinion it's usually better to stay with subtle effects when working with skin so maybe something around negative 30 at most and positive 30. but of course it all depends on the image that you're working with so in some cases you may need to go just a little bit further but usually not all the way and what i would recommend now is to open up a photo in photoshop and just try this tool out i think that it works great i've gone back and edited some of my old photos and added just a little bit of texture and it really makes a huge difference i think it's a great addition so i highly recommend you trying it out now if you want to learn more about adding detail to your photos then i highly recommend watching my crash course on sharpening i'll place a link right below in the description so you can watch it if you want and also if you want to learn how lightroom works then i have a free course on lightroom cc here on youtube i'm also going to place the link right below in the description and if this is your first time at the photoshop training channel then don't forget to click on that subscribe and notification buttons thank you so much for watching i'll talk to you again in the next tutorial

Channel: Photoshop Training Channel

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Keywords: Texture, Texture Slider, Texture Camera Raw, enhance texture photoshop, Enhancing texture in Photoshop, jesus ramirez, jrfromptc, photoshop training channel, photoshop tutorial, ptcvids

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Length: 11min 56sec (716 seconds)

Published: Mon May 20 2019