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Generally, we adjust the picture to have a sugar water MM effect, but in the end we don’t know what to do. Many friends find it difficult to grasp the Matthew effect in sharpening transitions, saturated transitions, or curve adjustments and contrast adjustments. Take a look at this tutorial:
Let’s take a look at the before and after:
Original picture
renderings
1. Open a picture
2. In the first step, I want to select the mid-tone and perform the calculation function. The settings are as shown in the picture. What is the use of the mid-tone?
This selection excludes highlights and dark areas. I can smoothen, brighten, and darken this selection. In addition to smoothing, I use hue and saturation, and set it to 20--50.
Why is the calculation set up like this? Wudong Zhai's new book "The Art of Choice" introduces this. If you have any questions, you can contact him and he will give you a very detailed theory.
Laoguan, give me advertising money, haha
3. The second step, CTRL+ALT+~, this shortcut key is to select the highlight, save the selection as a new channel, as shown in the picture, name: HIGH
Scared? What’s the point of doing this, old horse? You can use curves or levels to darken the highlight area, so that the picture won’t be too violent. It can harmonize the light and dark of the picture.
4. The third step is to invert the highlight of the second step. We now have the dark area. Save the selection as a new channel and name it: LOW.
With this selection, we can brighten and bring out the details in the dark, and we can also use USM to sharpen
The selection is set up. Let me have a cup of tea and take a rest.
5. Let’s go to the channel. You will find that the channel has three new friends, namely the mid-tone, highlight, and dark channels. Isn’t it fun?
6. Click on the mid-tone channel and press the channel selection selection. As shown in the picture, OMG! A warning pops up. Anything less than 50% will not be displayed as a selection.
Ignore it and press OK.
Click on RGB, go back to the layer, and select the middle area. I will first smooth the skin and use the filter to blur the surface. The setting parameters are: 5, 17
Next, I'm going to adjust the curves and set the ideal adjustment myself depending on the image.
7. It’s still a channel. This time we choose highlight. If the picture is not very violent, there is no need to adjust it. It doesn’t matter if you use a curve to make it a little darker. Just do it if you like it.
8. Stamp the layer, and select the dark area for the channel. This selection is my favorite. I use sharpening for this selection. No plug-in? It doesn’t matter, we can use USM. Set it to about 100, 1.0, 4, and use the curve to brighten some areas. , if necessary, use a mask to repair the places you don’t want to change. Finally, adjust the curves of the whole picture, compare, and decide what to do, and it’s done.
Let's take a look at the before and after. After such adjustments, the picture has been changed very delicately. Is it more moisturized?
What? Not much change? Remember, don’t adjust the image too extreme. It’s like applying fertilizer to a potted plant. If you apply too much fertilizer, you won’t need to apply it anymore, and it will die!
What? It’s really troublesome to have to select a selection every time. Lao Ma, just make an action and then execute this action. Lao Ma, you can provide the action by the way!
My old horse's movements are for prestige. Don't be lazy. Can you do it yourself? You can look for tutorials related to movements. I'm off topic.
