Advanced Sharpening and Noise Reduction in Photoshop CS5

[reidgee1474]

awesome!!!



[Incognito6543]

Will this only work for b&w pictures? Becuz I'm trying to do it on color photos and its giving weird results

[Wubalubaloo]

Hey so I have tried this multiple times but I keep getting this red outline around my selections. I am also working in RGB so I'm not sure if that's the problem.

[belken117]

I will love to see, of this version of noise reduction imaging to Pixelmator. I only use Pixelmator, cause I don't have a good budget to buy Photoshop CS5, but anyway. I really like how useful this tutorial is, it's very interesting and very effective than the simple use of noise reduction filter or tool.

I like to see something like this done in Pixelmator, how you do it

Really awesome video tutorial!

[hidefcolor]

@belken117 thanks for the nice comments! unfortunately, i do not have that software and use Photoshop exclusively. most image editing software uses a very similar interface and functions are very similar. keep researching and testing your software and maybe you will find a suitable work-around. thanks again

[MrPOOPpants1]

Would you recommend using sharpening on portraits?

[hidefcolor]

@MrPOOPpants1 not necessarily. the only time i use sharpening on portraits is to enhance the eyes. this is achieved by increasing the 'threshold' setting and using a value above 10 pixels. this will sharpen pixels that differ by more than a brightness value of 10. this will ensure smooth areas, aka skin, will not be effected and remain smooth. however, using this technique in the video will mask the high contrast areas and leave skin unaffected.

i hope this helps you...

[MrPOOPpants1]

Oh my God! My teacher taught me this but It didnt click until now! I am so subscribing. Can you make a video about spot proofing and gamut warning and how to lower that. I'm just trying to perfect my printing.

[hidefcolor]

@MrPOOPpants1 do you mean soft proofing? please provide more detail so i can provide what you are looking for...

[MrPOOPpants1]

@hidefcolor Yes sir soft proofing. Im sorry. Also, how is pro photo rgb in comparison to a adobe rgb? Thank you so much.

[hidefcolor]

@MrPOOPpants1 i will post a video on how to do soft proofing in Photoshop. keep in mind that you will need the correct print profile for this to work effectively.

ProPhoto RGB is an even bigger RGB color gamut than Adobe RGB. most monitors, let alone output devices, cannot render this gamut. many pros will archive images in ProPhoto RGB in hopes that advances in the future will permit the use of this color space.

[MrPOOPpants1]

@hidefcolor Thank you for all your help, you are great!

[hidefcolor]

@MrPOOPpants1 thank you for the comment. let me know if you ever need anything in print production or other information!

[ZeUberNerd]

Inverse selection worked for me, I am on Win 7. Thanks, this is really awesome!!!

[NIKONGUY1960]

I just turned one of my shots into b/w. As I no longer have a darkroom, I'll edit in Lightroom! :D (a little photo humor there)

Amazing results. So glad to have found this.

[ajtafft]

Excellent tutorial, worth noting you have to have the image as RGB to save as jpeg.

[NIKONGUY1960]

UN = frickin' believable. Amazing work.

[mexicanamerican21]

great vid

[2tired2care4now]

:( my image turns red when i turn on rgb again

[SurfCracker]

Stunning results.

Thanks for sharing this technique !

[hidefcolor]

@SurfCracker Thanks a lot! What other tutorials would you like to see?

[TheMcdRecords]

03:47 is NOT function for me, even if i invert selection, he write me this msg : Warning: No pixels are more than 50% selected. The selection edges will not be visible.

What do i do?

[blahblahblah11811]

hey, so i tried this but i must be doing something wrong cause it didn't work =(

it's for my art major work, and i put a noise filter over my photos but i don't like it now, is there any chance you could let me know of how to get it back to normal? =(

[hidefcolor]

@blahblahblah11811 give me some more details. are you saying that you added the noise filter and now you want to remove the noise effect? If you saved your image after noise filter, there is nothing you can do becuase your history tab is now empty. Watch the video closer, maybe you missed a step?

[blahblahblah11811]

@hidefcolor ok, thanks, i'll just have to re-edit the photos and not put the noise filter on this time =/ haha, thanks anyway!

[hidefcolor]

@blahblahblah11811 You bet! Stay in touch and let me know how things work out...

[blahblahblah11811]

@hidefcolor ok, thankyou!

[zoeyrawkz]

I found a solution to it. Instead, Alt-click the new channel button and choose "selected areas". The alpha channel background will then be white! No problem following the rest of the tutorial after that.

[hidefcolor]

@zoeyrawkz you are absolutely correct! i appreciate your support looking into the problem. my default is always set on 'selected areas' and that is the reason some people will have to invert if they don't have this setup. i have posted an annotation to the video.

[zoeyrawkz]

yea I had to invert the selection too. it works great! Thanks for the tutorial!

[hidefcolor]

@zoeyrawkz thanks for the nice comment! question: are you running Photoshop on windowsOS? i'm trying to trouble-shoot this 'invert' issue. i would appreciate it if you would reply back with your working environment, ie OS, version of Photoshop, etc... dont forget to subscribe!

[zoeyrawkz]

@hidefcolor I'm using CS5, Windows Vista. Your alpha channel background is white while for most of us i think, it's black. So because of that Photoshop selects the white areas, so we have to invert the image to select the black areas for sharpening. I'm not sure if this is a problem or not. I'm not sure to change the background of the alpha channel. How did you figure this method of sharpening out?? It's definitely one of the best for me!

[miteofthesun]

killer tutorial man, i really appreciate it :) i had problems w/ over-sharpening before, using just the unsharp mask / high pass filter

[hidefcolor]

@miteofthesun thanks for the comment on sharpening! enjoy your new hi-def imagery...

[CYNFELYN23]

great video, thanks

[alaricxyz]

It seems my selection get's ignored when I sharpen it. I.e., the whole image get's sharpened. What could I have missed?

[hidefcolor]

@alaricxyz are you sure that you just HID the selection and you did not turn off the selection?

[xaroxantu]

@alaricxyz I had the same issue until I realized that Photoshop was actually selecting the WHITE area instead of the black area. You can fix that by simply inverting the selection via Select > Inverse. Hope this helps!