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My name is Emilio.
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In today's video, we are going to see how to focus a portrait.
But we are not going to see the typical approach of giving that focus to the
entire portrait, but rather we are going to give that focus only to certain ones.
In the points of interest of our portrait.
When we look at a photo, our brain
instinctively goes to certain points.
These points of interest, towards which the brain
directs attention, may be those with greater illumination
or it may be directed by the lines of
flight of the photograph or by the plane
that our model in the photograph occupies, whether it is further forward or further back.
And one of the properties that also directs
our brain, our vision, is focus, sharpness.
That is why we are not going to see here how to focus the entire photo, but
rather we are going to see how to selectively focus the points of interest
where we want our brain to focus.
And in a portrait, the view is automatically
directed towards the eyes of our models.
Our brain normally goes towards the
eyes, towards the faces of the models.
But also, the focus on the eye area, on our model's
face, is higher than in the rest of the photo
We are going to make the directing of our
vision towards the models' faces even greater.
And well, let's get down to business.
We are already in Photoshop.
As you can see, it is a portrait that I made in my studio of the model Oreana Spena.
This would be the work already done and this would be the work not done.
If you look closely at the photo...
in this flower, in the lips, in the eyes
of our model, if we enable/disable
the work already done, you see how the focus increases in those areas.
I'm going to get closer...
I'm going to zoom in on this area of ​​the photograph...
and I'm going to repeat the action.
I'm going to turn the layer off and on with the work already done and you can see how
there are certain areas in which there is greater focus than in the rest of the photograph.
I move away from the photo again and
let's see how to do this selective focus.
The first thing I'm going to do is hide the work already done.
I'm going to pass it below 'layer 8'.
Inside this folder are all the layers that
I needed to make to reach this final result.
I'm going to call 'layer 8' the model.
It is always important to maintain order when
carrying out our work, because in this case
We are going to have few layers, but in works with
many layers it really becomes hell in the end.
It is important that as we progress in the work we name
the layers so that we know what each layer contains.
Without further ado, I'm going to zoom in on the model's eyes.
As you can see, the photo itself already has enough focus.
It doesn't need anything else, but I want to highlight these eyes, I want
to highlight these lips and I want to highlight this flower that they are.
to whom I want to give the center of attention within this photograph.
I'm going to duplicate the model layer,
I position myself on it, 'Ctrl-J' and there I have 'copy model'.
I'm going to call this layer 'focus'.
It's going to be on this layer where we're going to apply that extra focus.
Use whatever method you usually use to increase focus.
There are people who use
the 'unsharp mask' filter...
In this case I am going to use 'high pass'.
I'm going to come to filter, another, 'high pass'.
I'm going to move the little window aside to see the
preview, so that I can see our model's eyes well.
I'm going to go down to '0' and I'm
going to go up until I see enough detail
of the photograph, but without generating those
halos that appear when the 'high pass' is very high.
Imagine if I go to very high radius values
of the 'high step'.
Do you see how those halos that I mentioned
around the edges of our photography are generated?
I don't want these halos to be generated, so I'm going to lower
the radius and keep a value where I don't see those halos.
around the edges.
I'm going to go up slowly and
see when those halos appear.
I'm going to leave it around 7.
I'm going to change this layer now.
its blending mode and I'm going to select 'Overlay'.
As you can see, the focus effect of this layer
on our model is very exaggerated, but hey,
For now we are going to leave it and now we will see how this problem is going to be solved.
I'm going to hide all of this focus that I just caused
by using a layer mask completely filled with black.
As you already know, black hides and white shows what is in this layer.
If I just add a blank layer mask, as you can see, nothing happens.
You can't tell if the mask is there or not, but if I position myself on the mask
layer and press 'Ctrl-I', I invert the fill of that layer mask to black.
As you can see, I have stopped seeing that focusing effect
that the layer was doing on the original photograph.
If what I want to do is show that
focus on certain pixels of our layer,
What I will have to do is discover, by using this mask, the
pixels in which I want to increase the focus of my original photo.
I am going to select my brush, I verify that the
front color is white, with a round tip and 0% hardness
I select a flow of 10%.
Why do I select such a small flow?
Because I want to obtain or bring to light in a controlled
way that extra focus and I achieve that by having a low flow.
This way every time I go over with my brush
I'm going to gradually increase that focus.
That's why I said before that although I had obtained a
very high focus, it's okay, because now I'm going to go
discovering the amount of focus I want in the areas where I want it.
I'm going to zoom in on the model.
I am going to select the size of the
brush according to the size of the area
in that I want to increase the focus and I am going to make passes.
You see how that extra
focus appears in passing...
in the other eye. I'm going to
increase the focus on the lips.
Maybe I overdid it focusing on this cheekbone area.
I swap the foreground color and now set the foreground
color to black, and gently remove the amount of focus I want
and I leave it with the extra focus that I want for that area.
I select white again as the foreground color.
I zoom out a little bit and I'm going to increase the focus on the hair area.
In this area as well, I increase the focus.
I decrease the size of the brush to fit this strand of hair...
I increase the brush size a little again and I am now
going to increase that focus in the area of ​​this flower.
See?
Little by little I am bringing to light
that extra focus that I want to add to my
photography, with these small touches that I have been giving.
Now notice if I hide/show
the layer mask...
Do you see the difference?
How that extra focus becomes
only on the eye area, lips,
the flower and the hair, it could give a little, but very little in some other area.
I'm going to lower the flow to 5%.
I'm going to give a little more focus to the model's hand.
To this flower. To this other flowers.
And a little more.
I would not increase the focus to more areas of this photograph.
I'm going to fit the photo on the screen.
This would be the final work we have done.
As you can see, I'm going to hide/show this 'focus' layer...
And there you have how you can notice that difference in approach.
Only in the areas where we wanted to have that extra focus.
Well, as you have seen, the job is very simple.
I have not gone into detail about the tool
to increase the focus of the photograph.
We have already seen in previous videos how to increase
focus, for example, using the unsharp mask filter.
In this case I have used the 'high pass' filter.
Use the one you normally use to
increase the focus of your photographs.
This increase in focus must be done in an ex-process layer.
A layer that we dedicate solely to giving focus to the photograph.
We are going to hide this sharpening effect by
using a layer mask completely filled with black
and then with a white front color brush, with a
round tip, 0% hardness and chosen a low flow to go
little by little discovering that extra focus on the areas that I have wanted.
I repeat myself, with this brush we are going to go to the area
where I want to increase that focus selectively and little by little.
We are going to make brushstrokes to obtain, to recover, that focus in that area
where I have gone with my brush painting with that white color in the layer mask.
Well, that's it for today's video.
It was a short video.
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See you soon.