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Sharpening details to match

Sharpening details to match - Photoshop Tutorial

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Sharpening details to match

I have gone ahead and saved my progress as Big New irises.psd, so called because we've taken these irises, we've copy-merged them from the original liquefied portions of the image, then pasted them into place, and enlarged them using the Free Transform Command. Now, we have to try to do a little bit of detail matching, by which I mean, we need to take these very softly focused eyes at this point, not that they were shot soft in the first place, but rather we have made them soft by applying the Liquefy Command, which did a lot of damage actually, and of course by scaling them with a Free Transform Command. Now, we don't have to get too twisted up about exactly how sharp we make these eyes, because the detail inside the image vacillates a little. For example, this cheek right here, you can see the pores really crisply. So it's rendered quite nicely. Whereas the detail across her brow is obviously very stretched by the application of Liquify. So what I'm saying is, most of this stuff is…

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