thanks for the tips :)

got bunches of pictures in my collection needing this "incantation". Thanks!

Wow, im really not into that overdone HDR style that so many ppl are doing right now. But this treatment really seems to ad some extra crispyness to the Images. Ill def try this, thanks!

Wow, very impressive ! never used that tool before... gonna use my Photoshop french/english dictionnary one more time !
Thx

Nice. Simple and effective.

This is some great information. Thanks for the post

Nice. Great result

It looks like unsharp mask.

Wow the finish result is just amazing! Shows soo much more detail.

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Neat, simple tutorial. And I guess I have to be "that person": that cat is adorable!

thanks

Great tutorial, it's simple and very cool.

Another advanced way of enhancing photos is to copy the layer, then copy the blue channel over the green channel, so you have 2 blue channels and a red channel (in top layer). Then go to Hue/Saturation and select only Reds, drag the saturation all the way to 0. Set blending option to Overlay, and adjust opacity for best results.

Although I can see how this effect can help other pictures I don't agree that it improves this picture. The hair of the kitten now looks like it is a bit wet and his whiskers look like they have been saved with a bit to high jpeg compression.

Simply amaizing .

Wow!! nice tip, really its very usefull.

Yessss...! It's cool this trick.

And now i have a new thing to try for enhance my skill. ;)
Thanks for share!

Thanks for the tip!

Wow, thats amazing. I am going to try that out with some of my photos. The results are quite significant.

Thanks for the tip! really helpful!

I don't know if I did it wrong but my picture turned out completely awful with this technique. When you say "leave just the light areas and delete the dark areas, what do you mean? After the screen mode is applied, there ARE no more dark areas! Any tips?

I guess this is subjective, but the results aren't exactly appealing for the trendy HDR look, nor commercial value. The outcome is actually very lossy and oversharp. I think a better solution would be to lightly apply the High Pass and create a masked Levels adjustment layer. Then you wouldn't have such muddy details.

Boa cara, simples e show de bola a dica ^^

Pretty basic stuff but comes out great. I used something similar before, I think I have it posted somewhere on my website at http://www.knrdesigns.com

Well great tutorial. Very simple, yet very effective.

Good tutorial!

super effect man =)

is very simple and cool thanx for all...

Pretty sweet tip. Thanks

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Great tutorial, I've tried it out several times and it works incredibly well!

Neat effect. Looks great! Meow.

Great Tutorial.

This should really help me restore some of my old family photos.

these look great.

Thank you for the post!

shadows and highlights!!!

great tip!

another good one :)

That'sa way to better result.
Unsharp Mask slowly than the High Pass, i think.

Thanks!

Well...that's really quick. But it is always better to use Curves, although it takes much more time, and is hard to master. But gives oustanding results. Thanks for sharing

Thanks for the tips, I never know what that filter does, until I see this tutorial :) very useful, indeed.

Did any of you morons actually try out the technique?? There's obviously some error in the tutorial, because after applying the Screen, your photo doesn't look anything near any of the images displayed here. He must have ment Soft blend or something, but we'll never know, unless he updates the tutorial!

Ok, this is what I found out:

What is not mentioned in this tutorial, is that the image was resized something around 25%. AAAARGH, tutorial-maker, why didn't you mention that? That's why when we try the High Pass filter it doesn't look anything NEAR what's shown here, because we're doing it on a 3900 x 5850 px image, while the tutorial-maker is working with 975 x 1463 px, or close to that.

If I might add, I suggest masking out portions of the High Pass layer, because some of the areas (e.g. the background) get pretty noisy.

Also, I suggest skipping the Screen-layer.

In the Shadows/Highlights, skip the bells and whistles, and go for the simple mode. Just turn down shadows drastically and boost the highlights a little.

This system does not work well on small pics, only very high res photos.

Hey guys, i know this is a real rookie question and im just starting to get involved in all that stuff so please dont bite my head off but i did this tutorial like 3 times without a problem, after i tried a couple of other things and now i wanted to go back to that. Now comes my really stupid question: I can apply all the filters etc, but when i want to choose the eraser tool all i have is this stupid hand thing, i have nooo idea how to get back to using the tools. SO if u guys cud just tell me how the hell i get the freaking tools back i wud b very happy, i`m really starting to hate the hand already!
Thx

Its a precious information, thanks alot.

Great tutorial... Thanks for sharing!

Cheeeeeers!

wako!really usefull.thaaaaaaankkkkkuuuuuuu.

Hey guys I'm glad you liked this quick tip. This sort of photo enhancement is very unique to the type of photo you are working on. But it's all about playing with the high pass filter and also the blend modes.

Thanks a lot ;)

I think this looks great yet i think the cat should have just been left alone LOL

Really appreciate this!
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Excellent tutorial. This is very helpful. Thanks.

Thanks!!!

Wooow i have been searching for a similar effect for a long time. This is a really good and very useful tutorial.

I don't know what other's problem is, i tried this tutorial without resizing the original stock image and followed the tutorial to the 't'. The result although not the same as the one shown in the tutorial, came out really similar and really beautiful without noise. i did also include the Screen blending mode step.

Very useful tutorial. I was already familiar with the high pass filter but Step 4 was enlightening.

Thanks for sharing Fabio.

I really like your post. Does it copyright protected?

Thank you so much! This is gonna help like you can't imagine! :]

-C

That's a great effect, photoshop is a great software for those who know how to use it. I mean the program is critical in Graphic Design in general. If anyone needs design help, I highly recommend Resolute Digital Web Site Design

Wow, what a great post, photoshop really is a fantastic tool for Web Site Design especially. Thanks!