oh hello hey guys today I'm gonna show you a super cool very quick little trick
to add infinite amount of detail to your images especially in the shadows where
you think there is nothing left
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time I upload a video I upload every week and sometimes more than that if I
feel like it this method of pulling out the details
in the images does also add a sharpen so be careful not to overdo it and make
sure you use everything in moderation so to do the surface blur there's a few
different steps involved and it does take a bit to get your head around so
just stick with me and take notes if you need to so the first thing that we're
going to do is we're going to duplicate our layer with the image on so we just
go ahead and duplicate that then what we need to do is we need to desaturate this
layer now how I do that I use the keyboard shortcut you don't have to do
that you could go right up into image adjustments and into hue/saturation but
I use the the shortcut all of the time which is command + u on a Mac or ctrl +
u if you're on a Windows then drop your saturation to -100 and click OK when
you've done that what you need to do is duplicate your desaturated layer so
we've duplicated that again so now we've got two desaturated layers over here and
then the next thing that we need to do is invert our top layer so to do that I
use again keyboard shortcut which is command + I or ctrl + I if you're on
Windows this makes it look a bit weird don't worry about it too much at
the moment then once you've done all of these steps over here with your layers
and with the desaturated inverted layer selected go into filter and then into
blur and then choose surface blur the settings that you have this on aren't
really that important to be honest with you just find a middle ground
that you're happy with or just use the settings that you can see on your screen
now when you're happy with that click OK and then this is where it gets a little
bit tricky so with our inverted and desaturated layer that we've just put this
surface blur on you want to set the layer style to vivid light once you've
done that you then want to merge that layer down into your desaturated layer
so you right click on it and you choose merge down so
with this layer that you've got now you go into the layer style and you choose
overlay and if you look at the image now you should be able to see quite a big
difference now you don't have to leave it at 100% I've left it up at this
level just because it makes it a bit easier for you guys to see the
difference on your screens but you really want to fine-tune changing
the opacity to a point that you're happy with for the image that's in front of
you at the moment so for me that is about that I don't really want to go
much further than that so what that essentially has done is it has given a
sharpen of the image to the edges but it has also pulled out a lot of lost
detail this is particularly good for dogs with interesting coats textures
that kind of thing and also for different props if you were using a
colored seamless background and also using this effect you would want to go
ahead and mask I will add a masking link up in the top there you would want to go
ahead and mask the background off because it will add detail to any curves
edges creases or whatever there might be on the background as well so you would
mask away anything that you don't want to have this effect on you can see how
I've used this particular effect within the speed edits that I've got on my
channel they all tend to have some element of the surface blur sharpen
effect within them and I'm also going to go ahead and do a video on this
particular image of a high pass sharpen too because a high pass sharpen does
actually go in and sharpen and bring out the edges so I use these two in
collaboration with each other and it gives an amazing result thanks so much
for watching really appreciate it I also appreciate
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