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Adobe Photoshop for Beginners

Course 4: Retouching: Hide Your Tracks and Finishing: Sharpening & Grain

By Harrison Kuykendall , Digital Artist

Digital Artist. New York, United States.
Joined February 2020
Domestika Basics Course 4 of 6
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About the video: Hide Your Tracks and Finishing: Sharpening & Grain

Overview

“In this unit, we’ll go over how to add sharpness back to your images using the smart sharpen filter. We’ll also learn how to add a bit of realistic grain to both make things have a more film-like quality, and to make sure the retouching can’t be seen.”

In this video lesson Harrison Kuykendall addresses the topic: Hide Your Tracks and Finishing: Sharpening & Grain, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 4: Retouching. Clean up your images and start experimenting.

Partial transcription of the video

“PHOTOSHOP / COURSE 4 LESSON 6 - Hide your tracks / finishing: sharpening & grain When we're working in Photoshop, the changes we make to images can often leave things a bit less sharp than we'd like. In this unit I'll show you how to use the smart sharpening filter to add sharpness back to your images. We'll also add a bit of grain at the end to give it a more filmic, finalized quality. Let me show you what I mean. So I have this cake image that we worked on in our Liquify tutorial and I went ahead and flattened this, rasterized my Liquify, because I'm happy with it. Now I'm going to go...”

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Course summary for: Course 4: Retouching

  • Level: Beginner
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Harrison Kuykendall

Harrison Kuykendall
By Harrison Kuykendall

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Harrison Kuykendall is a digital artist living in New York City who specializes in creative retouching and design using Adobe Photoshop. He is the owner and founder of HE–Studios, a Brooklyn based post-production studio whose client list includes Target, Stella Artois, Lady Gaga’s Haus Labs, Aveeno, Champion, and Diane von Furstenberg.

Harrison and his studio are focused on retouching stills and creating animations for large scale global advertising campaigns that can be seen on billboards and screens around the world. When he’s not experimenting in Photoshop or the rest of the Adobe Creative Suite, you can find him relaxing with his three cats or creating music for his synthpop band BHuman.


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Course 4: Retouching

By Harrison Kuykendall
Digital Artist. New York, United States.
Joined February 2020
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  • 12 students