Adobe Photoshop: Beginner's Guide for Photographers
Course 4: Retouching Portraits: Sharpening
By Mikael Eliasson , Portrait Photographer
About the video: Sharpening
Overview
“ Now you will learn to sharpen your portraits effectively. You will learn how to sharpen parts of the image more than others (such as the eyes and garments) while leaving parts of the images unaffected (such as the skin).”
In this video lesson Mikael Eliasson addresses the topic: Sharpening, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 4: Retouching Portraits. Learn how to retouch and get the most out of your portraits.
Partial transcription of the video
“PHOTOSHOP FOR PHOTOGRAPHY COURSE 4 LESSON 8 Sharpening In this lesson, I'll teach you how to sharpen a portrait. Typically, when we sharpen portraits, we pay more attention to the eyes than the skin, for example. We sharpen backgrounds a lot less than garments. I'm going to show you a few different useful techniques for this here. It can sometimes seem a little counterintuitive to sharpen images when you've done a portrait with a shallow depth of field. I'm going to show you how you can work fairly selectively with your sharpening. I'll start by showing you my favourite sharpening, and then...”
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Course summary for: Course 4: Retouching Portraits

Mikael Eliasson
By Mikael Eliasson
Mikael Eliasson is a London-based photographer whose work focuses primarily on portraiture. His photos have been exhibited throughout Europe, and have been showcased in Portfolio Catalogue magazine (issue number 43), as well as in private shows in London, Turin, and more.
Besides his commissioned and personal work, Mikael also works as a photography & Photoshop tutor and runs Photography Course London.
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