Applying Detail in ON1 Photo RAW - ON1 Recorded Webinar

okay so I have this photo here and as you can see it's a little bit underexposed I I typically like to shoot underexposed photos just because then I can play with the highlights a little bit more and I'm you know hundred percent sure they're not gonna be blown out if I shoot the photo underexposed so for this particular image I'm actually just gonna go over and I'm gonna crop it first so I'm just gonna hit C on my keyboard to grab my crop tool and I'm gonna use this nice crop preset ratio and I'm going to use a sixteen by nine and I'm just gonna pull this in like that then I'll just drag this up kind of right in the middle there just so we have these people playing over here with their dog we have these people exiting the scene and then we have this guy here so we kind of have a nice little scene for our shot I'll just hit enter on my keyboard and there we go now we have a cropped photo so all I really do whenever I'm starting out to edit a shot and I'm inside my develop tab is as far as setting the tone and color goes I like to take a look at my shot and I really kind of examine my shadows and my highlights if my photo has too many kind of harsh highly highlighted areas or there's a lot of white on my shot I typically don't go over and I pull up on the exposure because whenever you have a lot of harsh highlights on your photo if you pull up on the exposure slider it's just gonna make them harsher well by looking at this photo there's not a whole lot of white in my shot so pulling up in the exposure probably wouldn't be a bad idea so now I can just go over and I'm gonna pull up in the exposure to kind of brighten this image a little bit probably just about right there because you'll notice that if I pull this up even further I'm gonna risk blowing out this entire sky behind my water tower here so I typically just I like to pull it up a little bit maybe a little bit more than half a stop so now what I want to do is I want to pull out the areas that are a bit darker whenever i under expose a photo i'm gonna have darker shadows and mid-tones so now that i've pulled up on my exposure slider i'm just gonna head down to my mid-tones and i'll just pull up on those and watch how that kind of alleviates some of that dark area from the grays in my photo it's really pulled out the detail over here with this person and in these trees and now because the photos you know getting a lot better exposure and it's looking a lot brighter all we have to do now to kind of set that foundational look is we're just gonna pull up on the shadows just a hair and you'll see it I don't want to do a ton to it but by even just pulling up on it about you know 21 we could even make it a little less about 18 you'll see that it really pulls up those dark areas in this photo you'll see on the trees over here we couldn't really see those before but now it's really giving us a lot of that detail back so that's all I really do as far as setting the foundational look as I typically look at my shot and I kind of examine the highlighted areas the shadows and then I you know pull up on the sliders to kind of match that tone so for this particular photo the last thing I want to do is I'm just gonna warm it up because it is incredibly cool so I'll just go down to my temperature slider and I'll just pull up on the temperature maybe a little more well so now if we hit the backslash key on our keyboard just basic foundational look you know no frills just exposure mid-tone shadows and color so just kind of an easy way to set your base foundational look keep in mind that everything is non-destructive and re-edit well so you can always go in from here at a local adjustment play with that go back to develop play with that so you can always go back and readjust you're never stuck to one look okay so now we want to apply detail obviously this photo has a lot of awesome little areas in it that need detail these trees would look great with detail this building would look great with detail and because I shot it on underexposed and I pulled up on the shadows it's gonna be a little bit soft and there might be a little bit of noise so we might need to sharpen it up to bring back some of those details so the first way that you can apply detail inside photo raw and the most basic way to do it is inside your tone and color paint here inside your develop tab just head down to your structure slider here and structure is just gonna bring in micro contrast in detail to your photo so if I pull up on it you'll see that's bringing in a lot of nice micro contrast and detail to the shot but the one drawback well there's a couple drawbacks from applying detail with your structure cider and my first drawback that I don't like is that it really kind of darkens up the image what a dozen here is it's adding contrast and whenever you apply contrast to something you're applying bits of black because there needs to be contrast between white blacks so you're getting a lot of dark areas in those micro areas of detail so if I pull up on this you'll see it's just bringing in a lot of dark well that's because I'm not being able to modify anything with the structure I'm only pulling up on the slider and it's applying the detail that it's the algorithm is set to and I can't go in and modify the small amounts of detail or the large or the medium so for this structure slider I would recommend using the structure slider if you're looking to apply detail to your entire photo without regard for how it looks or whatever it may be so if you want to just apply structure just quickly to a photo just go in and apply a little bit of structure with the structure slider with that being said I typically like to apply detail with either a local adjustment or dynamic contrast just because I have the ability to go in and mask and brush it out and with dynamic contrast I can go in and modify the tone of that detail I can bring out shadows I can modify the vibrance and I can also go in and modify the small medium and large areas so for this particular photo I'm gonna go in and I'm gonna go into effects here we're gonna add a filter and we're going to apply detail with dynamic contrast and you'll see even just by applying that dynamic contrast and turning it off and on it's applied a lot of nice detail to this photo and you'll see that it's not as dark as it was when we were pulling up on that structure slider well that's because we can modify the different areas of contrast that we apply so let's zoom in here real quick to these trees and kind of this building so inside your dynamic contrast filter you have three areas that you can modify you have your small areas of contrast your medium and your large well actually created a nice little preset that zeroes amount just so we can I can kind of show you guys how they work so the small areas of contrast are gonna be you know your small little areas of detail like trees grass really fine textures so watch as I pull up on this small slider see how it brings out a lot of that detail in this grain not the grain and the trees in this are the branches in this tree and also the grainy kind of textured area on this building but if I pull up on the medium slider see how it's bringing a lot more detail into the mid-tone areas on this building kind of where there's a lot more medium-sized contrast and if I pull up on this large slider here oops let's go down to zero if I pull up on this large slider here you'll see that the building is kind of the thing that gets most of that contrast that's because it's pulling out all of the large micro contrast and detail and applying that dynamic contrast filter to it well the great thing about this filter is that we can modify all three at the same time to kind of cater our needs and we can also mask and brush it on so we can apply it to specific areas on our photo so for this particular photo what's going and let's brush some small detail into these trees and maybe bring out some of the vibrance and shadows and then we can go in and brush a new dynamic contrast filter onto this water tower here that strictly pulls out the medium to large so let's go here and I typically like to go in lose I typically like to go into these more preset styles and my favorite one for pulling out small is this texture enhancer one it increases your small to sixty it gives you a little bit of medium and it doesn't modify any of the tone well it's a little bit crunchy on my water tower and obviously I have a person here so I don't want them to be crunched up also so let's go over to our dynamic contrast filter and in our masking options right here I'm just gonna click invert so now I've inverted that mask and now it's not being revealed to my photo now I need to brush that on into the specific areas that I want it to show it so now I have my masking brush selected if you don't have your masking brush selected you want to select it remember that B on your keyboard grabs your masking brush and all I'm gonna do is I'm gonna switch my mode to paint in while holding down shift and hitting X on my keyboard and I'm just gonna kind of not really with too much regard for painting inside the lines I'm just gonna kind of paint these on or paint this on the trees here kind of kind of avoid her maybe pull that right there perfect oh we could put it over here on these shrubs there okay cool and now in my dynamic contrast filter a lot of people don't really know where they don't play with it but down here you can modify the tone of this filter so not only can you modify the detail but you can also go in and let's say I want to bring out some of the shadow details from the area that I painted in I can just pull up on the shadows and watch how it reveals those trees so we'll pull up on those just a little bit and I'm also gonna pull up on the highlights a little bit and the reason I want to do that is because I want to bring in a little bit more contrast and also there may have been a lot more highlights in this photo but since I shot it underexposed I might have lost them in that underexposed shot so I'll just pull up on the highlights and then the whites a little bit and then I'll just pull up on the vibrance to bring in a little bit more green well so now if we turn this dynamic contrast filter off and on does a good job of pulling out all of that detail in these trees here and we can always go into our opacity slider and we can pull it back to make it look more natural cool so now we need to modify our water tower here so I'm just gonna add another filter all that dynamic contrast and I'm actually gonna pull up on this medium quite a bit and this large quite a bit so now we'll do the same thing we'll go in and we'll invert this mask and then we'll just brush it on to this water tower [Music] and we can pull back on it a little bit just to make it a little bit more natural cool so now if we hit the backslash key on our keyboard just by modifying a few sliders and then going in and adding that dynamic contrast filter we've selectively applied detail and we made sure that the people in our photo weren't all crunched up so that's one way to apply dynamic contrast to a photo rather than applying structure so we'll just carry on here and we'll just go to another photo and I'll show you how I would bring out that tonality and then apply detail so let's head on to a flower so this is one of those times like I was saying earlier when I really you know kind of have to look at the photo and examine what slider I need to use well if I'm taking a look at this shot I'm seeing that there's a quite a bit of light hitting the flowers here and that could pose a problem for me if I'm pulling up on the exposure slider it could blow out these areas on these leaves here so I have to be careful whenever I'm trying to brighten an image that has a lot of these kind of highlighted areas in here if you have a lot of you know harsh shadows and harsh highlights in your photo I would stay away from pulling up on the exposure slider too much I can always modify it IRA modify the brightness from your photo with a ton of other different filters and sliders so for this particular photo I'm actually gonna go down to my temperature slider first and I shot at when it was really cool all right I think I shot it when I'm at a fluorescent light setting yeah so I'm just gonna go and I'm gonna click cloudy and that pretty much fixed that color so now as far as the foundational look for the shot goes the first thing I'm gonna pull up on is my mid-tones because my mid-tones are gonna be these kind of middle toned areas kind of your grays in your photo and there's a lot of those in the shot so watch as I pull up on my mid-tones here boom it's pulled out all of those nice little mid-tones areas in my photo and watch if I pull up on the exposure slider see how that's bringing in so much harsh light into those petals the flower so just be careful if you have you know a lot of stark contrast between your highlights and shadows you can kind of blow them out heavy with that exposure slider so I'll just pull up on the mid-tones again bringing out those nice mid-tones in the photo and I'm actually going to remove some of this contrast and the reason I'm removing contrast is because I just want to kind of alleviate some of this darker color in my background and don't worry I can always add in contrast later but you'll notice that by pulling back on that contrast letter I really kind of took this harsh dark lit background away from my flowers and made it a lot more appealing so the last thing I want to do is I'm actually gonna go down I'm gonna pull up on my shadows just a little bit just like that and now we're gonna go down to our blacks and we're gonna add in just a little bit of true black to bring back some of that contrast so now if we hit the backslash key of my keyboard you'll see I've kind of protected these highlighted areas on my petals by not playing too much with that exposure slider and rather pulling up on the mid-tones and then removing some of that contrast okay so actually let's just crop this real quick and then all I like to use a four by five oops just use a four by five perfect okay so now we need to apply detail to this photo well if I pull up on this structure slider here I mean it's applying a nice amount of detail but again it's also being applied to the entire photo and it's also adding in a little bit of black which in turn is bringing in a little bit of purple to these petals so you'll notice that if I pull up and down on this you'll see how much of that kind of purpley color goes into the flower petals well a good way to fix that is I could actually play with that vibrance slider in a with my dynamic contrast filter and then I could modify it so that none of that purple goes into it or I could add a local adjustment layer and I could modify the temperature and then I can apply detail with that so let's apply detail with two ways with these flowers here and the first way is we're gonna do it with dynamic contrast so I'll go into effects here I'll add a filter and I'll just add dynamic contrast well if I turn this off and on that's just an awesome job at applying that detail in here especially the small areas without kind of darkening it up and adding that purple color cast or that blue color cast so now let's go in and one thing I like to do if I'm applying detail to areas especially with flowers is I don't like to crunch up the things that are out of focus so if i zoom in here to these out-of-focus flower petals and I turn this off and on it's really kind of crunching them up because there is still small amounts of detail in the out-of-focus areas well we only really want this selectively applied to these kind of three InFocus flowers right here so we're gonna go to our dynamic contrast filter we're going to invert it so that it's not applied to our shot and then again we're gonna use our masking brush and to shift from artists shift to switch from paint out to paint in just hold down shift hit X on your keyboard and now I can just brush this on these flowers right in front boom and then I can go in and for this particular photo especially flowers I'd recommend pulling up on your small and all my remove a little bit of that large and now I'm gonna go in and I'm actually gonna pull up on these highlights to bring back a little those highlights and those flowers right there boom so now if I turn this off and on because I brought back some of those highlights with that detail it's really kind of separated this flower from these other flowers in the background which wouldn't happen if I applied this entire dynamic contrast filter to the photo so watch if I reset this see how those are kind of brought back in when you don't really want them strong in the photo they're out of focus for a reason so I would recommend not applying detail or at least a lot of detail to out-of-focus areas in your photo especially if you're shooting flowers or something delicate so we'll just undo that and voila that's how I would probably recommend doing it as far as flowers go so now let's exit out of this dynamic contrast filter and I'll show you how I would do it with a local adjustment so let's go into our local adjustment tab and local adjustments are great for applying detail also except for when you apply a local adjustment detail you're applying structure so again you're not you're not gonna have the ability to go back and modify your small medium and large it's just kind of applying that detail and you get what you get but it's still an awesome way to apply detail and then you can modify your tone and color a lot more so kind of a little trade-off so exposure I'm just gonna reset to zero and I'm gonna pull up on my structure slider here and I'm gonna go down and I'm gonna use my temperature slider and I'm gonna warm it up just a little bit that way I can remove some of that kind of color cast on these flowers so I'll just go in and I'll just brush this on let's actually add a little bit more contrast well there we go there we go I leave out there perfect so now if we turn this local adjustment layer off and on again there's an awesome job of bringing out that detail in these flowers and also gave me the ability to kind of cool that area down that was a little bit too blue and then we can go in and I'll just add a little bit of D hazing which is kind of your highlight fixer and boom awesome okay so let's move on to the next photo and let's do yeah let's do this one because this is a good one before I go or before I go before I move on with this photo are there any questions about anything that I'm showing so far I know it's kind of basic about applying detail but applying detail really isn't that advanced so if you have any questions though let me know and I'll answer them throughout [Music] okay so for this shot the first thing I want to do is I want to crop it I definitely want to remove this this area from the outer edge of my my photo and just kind of focus solely on this leaf so we'll just hit C on our keyboard I'm just gonna use a one by one see if that fits in here no all right we're going to use a four by five [Music] well hit enter on our keyboard and there we go and so for this photo again we want to analyze it to look at the highlights and the shadows well there's not too many harsh highlights on this photo but there are little areas in here where you could get kind of some blown on areas if you do pull up on the exposure too much so let's try the exposure slider first to see what it looks like not too bad now let's pull up on the shadow slider and see what that looks like I would say the shadow slider is a little bit better so let's go in here and we'll pull up on our shadows and now the photo is gonna be a little bit flat and the reason it's flat is because we're pulling up on all of the shadow tones and we're not adding in any contrast or anything to kind of separate those tonality so let's go in and we'll bring in a little bit of contrast I'll pull up on my mid-tones and now we need a little bit of highlights so we'll go down to our whites and we'll boost those as well and then I'm just gonna head down to my temperature and I'm gonna warm it up about right there in this particular photo is kind of one of those gray areas when applying detail can be should I apply detail with my structure slider or should I apply detail selectively and for me I typically like to it like I said apply detail with either a local adjustment or but dynamic contrast but since this photo is basically an entire photo of detail and texture you can you could probably go down and get away with just pulling up on your structure slider here because you'll see that by pulling up on that it really does a good job of bringing in some of those darker kind of contrast the areas around the Salif and because it's adding in a little bit of darkness it's pulling in some of that contrast that we lost when we pull up on those shadows so applying detail is kind of an experimental game whether you want to you know bring back some of that dark into your photo or you want to you know apply it with dynamic contrast and kind of keep it away so that's with the structure slider and that's actually not that bad as compared to the other ones well let's actually apply it with dynamic contrast so we can really get in here and we can modify all that small detail in there okay so we'll go into effects here we'll add a filter and we'll add dynamic contrast and for this particular photo I would recommend just using a preset style here and like I was saying one of my favorite ones is this texture enhancer so if I turn this on turn this off and on you'll see it really pulls out all of that small little detail in here within this leaf but it's kind of crunching up those areas that are blurred out and out of focus and like I was saying I wouldn't apply detail at least a lot of detail to out-of-focus areas so we're gonna go in and we're just gonna kind of brush this off so we'll just actually we're don't yeah we'll just brush this off so I'll use our masking brush and then we'll just brush this off of areas that we don't want the detail you can see how much noise that's making from that detail cool so now if we turn this off and on see how much better that looks when it's only applied to that leaf if we reset this and turn this off and on see how that just kind of crunches up the entire thing and now one of my favorite things to do especially if I have a little water droplets like this is I'll go over to my local adjustment tab I'll go in here I actually add a magic eye fixer and I'm gonna turn the exposure down and I'm gonna pull up on this structure I'm gonna pull up on the whites quite a bit and the mid-tones just a hair and then I usually go in and for these little water droplets I'll just drop this on these little water droplets and don't worry about being too you know saying painting in the lines because we're gonna go over and we're gonna pull back on the opacity anyway and you'll see that by even just kind of brushing this on randomly do these little water areas it'll add a ton of nice kind of a exposure boost or you have these water droplets there's a couple more here this one's probably perfect for that and then get one more and then oh okay so now let's head over and if we pull over on our opacity slider and then we just pull up on it a little bit and now if we turn this off and on see how that helps add in a little bit of detail brings out some of those highlights in the little balls and it really brought out some of those water droplets in the thing sorry I was interrupted by a co-worker right there and that's why I'm losing my train of thought so blamed it for that okay so now that we've gone in there and kind of modified those little water droplets now what I want to do is I just want to go in and I just want to bring in a little bit of exposure and detail to these other areas what I'm gonna do is I'm actually gonna use a color range mask so we're gonna add a new local adjustment layer I'm gonna go down to my exposure and I'm actually gonna pull up on the mid-tones just a hair just a tiny little bit shadows just a tiny little bit and we'll add a little bit of D haze then we'll just go in and I'll go in my color or my masking options for my local adjustment and I'll use a color range mask I'm just gonna take this color dropper and I'm gonna drop it on this green now if I view this mask it's being applied to that green area on my leaf I'll just play with this level slider here to kind of remove it from the majority of my photo boom so now if I turn this off and on it gives it a kind of nice little subtle boost to even bring out that detail even more it almost makes it look like it was backlit kind of threw the leaf through the back so that's just kind of a quick way if you're shooting flowers or something with large torn LEDs and also a lot of detail to kind of boost up the areas where you lost some of that awesome so let's move on to the next photo are there any questions kind of autumn cruising through here let's get down to these ones let's actually do this one okay so for this particular photo I know that I really don't want the majority of this frame I only really want this kind of scoop my imaginary Square area where I'm kind of composed this tree right here with this building and then I want these people so for the foundational look I'm gonna crop it real quick and I'm just gonna pull in on my four by five and then I'll just pull a little a lot more well and then I can level it real quick cool so now we have kind of a crop photo with these people sitting here and obviously this is a photo where we probably don't want to apply detail to the entire thing especially if there's people in the photo but first let's set that foundational look and like a photo we were looking at earlier with the flowers and the highlights on it I'm probably not gonna want to pull up too much on my exposure just because of these highlighted areas in my sky so if I pull up on the exposure here you know those you'll see that those quickly kind of pull up and they get a little bit too white and bright for me but if we pull up on this shadow slider here I think probably I only need like a boost in my shadows from this job and then maybe a little bit of mid-tones but you'll see that that's not pulling up on these you know backlit areas in the sky and blowing them out it's just pulling up strictly on the shadows and the mid-tones so you don't risk getting too much of a distraction with these blown out areas then we'll add just maybe a little bit of white in here there we go perfect okay so now if I pull up on my structure slider to apply detail we're gonna bring in a lot of dark and we're also gonna crunch up this area with these people and make it a little bit too harsh also by pulling up on that structure Center if i zoom in over here look how much detail it's applying to this area that's out of focus and really kind of taken away the look of these people here so if anything we want to keep this area as soft as possible so again this is one of those photos where I probably wouldn't recommend applying structure or detail inside of tone and color I would recommend using either a local adjustment layer or going in and applying dynamic contrast so let's do both and we'll start with dynamic contrast so I'll reset my structure here and we have sort of this base look I could probably been warming up a little bit what you guys think that's probably that's probably good okay so let's go into effects we'll add a filter and we'll add to name a contrast and even then it does a good job of bringing in some of that detail but I still don't like how it crunches up this area over here so we'll actually just zoom into these people and one thing I do like to do before I'm adding a different modifications to the filters is I do like to zoom into the area that I'm actually applying the detail to because it's going to give you a good idea of what that detail is doing to your subject so for this particular shot I don't want to bring in too much small detail the reason I don't want to bring in too much small detail if I pull up on my small it's gonna crunch up these people quite a bit and even though we're pretty far away and you probably wouldn't be able to tell I just feel like it wouldn't really look good especially with this bench being here and these bikes I'd rather have like a nice sort of soft subtle dynamic contrast in here instead so we'll pull back on that small and I'll just pull up on the medium see how that's not crunching up these people at all and then I'll pull up on the large quite a bit so let's zoom out now and if I turn this off and on awesome job of bringing in some of that detail but it's a little bit too crunched up so let's large is at 97 okay that's probably why so let's pull these down to about there well that looks about perfect but is still applying to that place up there so what we need to do is we need to grab our masking bug and remove it from this top area so if you need to grab your masking bug just hit M on your keyboard and now you can just drop it down I usually just like to drop it down on our horizon line and now if I turn this off and on it's only being applied to this area in here well since it's only being applied to this area in here I could modify these shadows to bring out some of those shadow tones that I was looking for and also some of those whites and I can play with the vibrance to bring in more color so let's see just by using that dynamic contrast filter we've actually brought a lot of tonality and detail into this area down here and it looks a lot better than it would if it was applied to the entire photo all right so let's do let's do one more here and we'll do a portrait one because I know it's kind of an iffy thing applying detail the portraits and the reason I'm choosing this one is because it's a little bit out of focus except for these eyes so I think this would work perfect to show you guys how to selectively apply detail at portraits oops sorry I went ahead of myself I didn't even do a local adjustment layer all right let's go back and I'll show you guys how to do it look how I would use a local adjustment layer here sorry got ahead of myself got excited about the release and got ahead of myself though okay so we'll go to our local tab we have a new local adjustment layer added she's gonna go down to exposure and I'm gonna pull up on the kind of the same sliders we did with that dynamic contrast I'll pull up on my shadows my whites mid-tones a little bit maybe and then we'll apply some structure so now we'll use our adjustment gradient which you can grab by holding down shift and hitting K on your keyboard or it lives up in this top bar and your local tools right next to your adjustment brush so now I'll just drop this down and now I can play with the opacity and the structure and if I turn this off and on again does a good job of bringing out some of that nice detail some of these nice tones and it's not being applied to our entire photo all right so let's move on and we'll do the portrait one so for portraits applying detailed portraits is kind of a should I should or not it can really crunch up skin then that's probably the reason why a lot of people don't like to apply detail to portraits but in some cases especially with a really soft portrait you can kind of probably get away with it the reason I'm applying detail to this portrait is if i zoom in on our eyes here they're not as soft as the rest of the photo which you can make really cool looks if you have a subject that's kind of in focus and the rest of it is a little bit blurry and you can fix those areas by using dynamic contrast or local adjustments or in this case we might go in and we'll apply a little bit of sharpening so for this particular shot setting the foundational tone I'm not really too concerned with I'm only gonna go in and actually modify the crop and I'll probably just warm the photo up a little bit so I'm just gonna go and grab my crop tool and I'll use this nice 4 by 5 it will scoot it in just a little bit like that perfect so now we have kind of a crop shot here and I'm actually really gonna focus on the color and just on the composition like I was saying so let's just go over to our develop tab and I'll warm this photo up well see how that looks a lot better ok so now what I want to do is I kind of want to bring in a little bit of detail to her eyes in here but then I want to maybe bring in a blur or something to remove a lot of the sort of unfocused area or just kind of play with a little bit so for this particular photo let's add dynamic contrast first because well if we applied structure first you'll see that a plank structure is not the best way to go when it comes to portraits I would definitely look at it playing in detail selectively with portraits so we'll add a filter we'll add dynamic contrast and I don't want this apply to the entire shot so I'm just gonna go in and I'm gonna invert this mask now I'm gonna zoom in and I'm just gonna brush this dynamic contrast on on to her eyes her eyebrows and her lips and now I'm gonna head over and I'm just gonna pull up on this small a little bit to bring it a little bit of that small detail and then I'll just go in and I'm gonna pull up on the whites there we go so if I turn this off and on now there's a good job of bringing some of that detail into her eyes can also add a little bit more medium there we go boom so for the zoom out here I turn this off and on pretty good job of bringing in some of that detail well the cool thing with detail is if you apply enough detail to an area and you apply kind of a Bert a blur around it you can make kind of a cool motion blur effect using a blur filter so for this particular photo I have these eyes where I've you know brushed in that dynamic contrast I'm just gonna copy that dynamic contrast mask I'm gonna add another filter I'm gonna add blur and I'm gonna go in and I'm gonna click radial and I know this looks pretty crazy but you can make kind of a cool look with soft portraits by using this technique so in your blur filter I'm gonna head down to this centering icon and now I can Center it and I'm just gonna Center it on her face just like that now what I want to do is I'm gonna go in to my blur and I'm gonna paste that mask now I'm going to invert the mask so that's not being applied to her eyes in here what we need to do is we need to make this look a little bit more natural obviously it looks like I just painted in her eyes and a blur filter so let's go up to our top bar here and with our perfect brush selected I'll lower the opacity about 25 I'm gonna set my brush to paint out and now I'm just gonna kind of lightly brush some offer face but now we need to make it look a little bit more realistic so make sure your breast is set to paint in and it's about 20 and then just make kind of large brushstrokes kind of around their face even on a little bit just to bring back some of that blur so it looks a little bit more natural perfect so now if I head over to this blur filter and I pull on it the opacity I can kind of lower it to make it a little bit more natural leave it right there let's actually add a little bit more so by applying that detail and bringing in some of that kind of harsh detail into our eyes again if we've then played with the blur around it kind of to kind of create this kind of long exposure motion blur shot and then if I go in and I'll add a filter and we'll just add lots and we'll add a nice black and white here No so now if we hit the backslash key my keyboard really kind of stylized it and made a unique look just by using a dynamic contrast filter and a blur filter

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Length: 44min 7sec (2647 seconds)

Published: Thu May 16 2019