Impact and Creativity

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Adding Impact and Creativity

Today, we’re going to look at a couple of techniques that add impact and creativity to your images. Sharpening for Portraits and the creative Pencil Sketch Effect used to transform an image to look as if it were drawn in pencil. Both are fairly quick and easy – you don’t need to be Leonardo Da Vinci to create a masterpiece.

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, there are many ways to accomplish any single task and sharpening is one of them. I like the High Pass filter because it can be give a subtle effect if not pushed to the extreme.

The first technique is Sharpening for Portraits

Open your image > duplicate the background (Ctrl + J) > Filter > Other > High Pass > Radius 2 – 6 pixels. This image I set the pixels at 4.3; then change the Blend Mode to Overly > Flatten Layers > Save

For the Pencil Sketch Effect you can either use the same image or open a different image; then duplicate the background layer and change the Blend Mode to Color Dodge. On the tool bar, click Image > Adjustment > Invert (Ctrl + I) > Filter > Other > Minimum and set Radius between 3 – 6 pixels > Flatten Image.

Then, duplicate the background layer again, set the Blend Mode to Multiply, Flatten the Image and Save. And there you have it!!!

Be Creative and Create!

How you see yourself determines how you see what you are doing. ~ Keith Craft

So, do not throw away your confidence, it will be richly reward. Hebrews 10:35

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