ON THE WORK OF PHOTOGRAPHERS “MAGNUM”
Do you understand that the most important thing in photography is your own unique vision? Then this article will undoubtedly be useful to you. A bit of background Magnum Agency…

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How to find your creative style with “Split Toning”
In my opinion, the most underrated tool of Lightroom is “Separate Tinting”. Meanwhile, this is not only a great opportunity to correct many problems in a photograph, but also a…

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HOW TO CORRECT A BROWNED PHOTO?
As an introduction, I chose the picture “Chelubey struggling with overexposure”, which is already familiar to many. This joke of Anton Martynov fits in perfectly with the topic of the…

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ARNOLD NEWMAN (ARNOLD NEWMAN): CLASSIC PORTRAIT IN THE INTERIOR
Of course, a modern person, even very superficially familiar with photo art, cannot be surprised with a classic "photo portrait in the interior." But, as you know, any classic was…

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HOW TO INCREASE SHARPNESS PHOTOS IN PHOTOSHOP?

Sharpening photos in Adobe Photoshop is an extensive topic: there are many ways to make a picture sharper, and they all have a right to exist. Today we will talk about the method that is often used by professional photographers in practice.
To work, we need a High Pass filter, which is in the menu Filter -> Other (Other) -> High Pass (Color Contrast). The principle of its operation is to highlight the boundaries of the objects of the image, because of what the viewer will feel that the photo has become clearer. How to sharpen a photo with it? The easiest way to describe the process is in a few simple steps.
Step 1. Copy the image to a new layer. To do this, right-click the photo and select Duplicate Layer, or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + J.
Step 2. In the menu Image (Image) -> Adjustments (Correction) select Desaturate (discolor). Or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + U.
Step 3. In the Filter -> Other menu, select the High Pass item.
Step 4. In the filter window, select its radius. For images of small size (from 500 to 900 in width), a radius of 0.2 to 0.5 is used. The larger the image, the larger the radius. For full-size photos, a radius of 1 to 3 is used, depending on the size of the plan. For small plans, this is a radius from 1 to 1.5, for close-ups from 1.5 to 3. For this photo I used a radius of 0.5.
Step 5. Select in the Layers palette (Layers) the Overlay blending mode, as shown in the figure below, and analyze the result. There should not be a white edging, which is considered a technical marriage and in professional slang is called “overhaul”.
Step 6. If a white halo appears, go back to the Desaturate item in the History palette. Then again open the High Pass filter (Color Contrast) and select the radius again.
Step 7. When the radius is selected, in the Layer menu (Layer), select the command Flatten Image.
Step 8. If you do not have enough sharpness, duplicate the filter layer (Ctrl + J or right-click on the image and select Duplicate Layer). I duplicated the filter layer once:
Step 9. Save the image via File (File) -> Save As (Save As).
Done!

7 LESSONS OF HENRI CARTÉ-BRESSON THINKING PHOTOGRAPHY
Henri Cartier-Bresson - one of the most famous photographers in history. He is a co-founder of Magnum's photo agency, which brilliantly captured not only events, but also the spirit of…

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MARTIN IVNING "ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS5 FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS"
I studied and learned photoshop, like most photographers - through separate video tutorials and articles, extracts from forums and books. A huge impetus was given to me by Dan Margulis’s…

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