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Sharpening detail, reducing color noise

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Sharpening detail, reducing color noise

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The final phase of this project is to mitigate the shine on that guy's forehead so we are going to go from where we are now, to this final effect here. You can see that his forehead is in a way better shape. But before we venture into that step, we need to sharpen the details inside the image and reduce some noise as well. And that means, applying a couple of smart filters. So I'm going to switch back to my image in progress, it's called Both eyes masked.psd. Found inside that 09_ layer_mask folder. And I'm go ahead and zoom in on the image. Let's start things off by switching to the background image here in the Layers panel .I am going to double-click on it to convert it to a layer and call it couple and then click OK. Then go up to the Layers panel Flyout menu and choose Convert to Smart Object or if you loaded Dekekeys press Ctrl+, Command+, on the Mac. And the next step is to sharpen the image and because this is a portrait shot the best sharpening tool is the High Pass filter…

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