Tutorial: Enhance a portrait

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Enhance a Portrait

Multiple Topaz Vivacity filters can be used together to create interesting effect. Here is an example.




The above image is created by applying two Topaz Vivacity filters, but otherwise no other manual manipulation, of the following image. (You can click on the images to see the full pictures.)







How To Do It?

We first apply Topaz Denoise/EQ to remove grains on the skin to give it a perfect skin look. Here are the parameters changed from default value:

  • Noise Suppression = 1.0: maximum removal of grain
  • Noise threshold = 3.05: it is a balance between removing noise and preserving details
  • (Advanced)Shparness adjustment at Radius=0.8: sharpen details a little bit

Then we use Topaz Sharpen to accentuate line features. Here is the setting:

  • Sharpness = 1.1: Sharpen a little bit
  • Edge Crispness = 2.0: enhance edge a little bit
  • Radius = 0.87: we want to enhance thin line only
  • Noise threshold = 4.02: do not enhance noise
  • (Advanced) Line Accent = 1: this is the key to accentuate line features
  • (Advanced) Iteration = 6: you need to use many iteration to do this

Finally we use Photoshop's Auto Contrast to adjust its contrast. That is it! Simple, isn't it?








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