The Best Way to Sharpen Portraits in Photoshop!

Photoshop offers lots of ways to sharpen images. Unsharp Mask, Smart Sharpen. But the best way to sharpen people, faces, and portraits is High Pass. Why is that? How do you maintain smooth skin? And the key to it all, what’s the ideal Radius value? All is revealed in this video. Check out my Photoshop One-on-One Fundamentals course at dekenow.com Get 25% off and 5 free images from Dreamstime, my favorite place to get stock images: https://dreamstime.com/deke Check out my Patreon: https://patreon.com/dekenow I'm on threads: https://www.threads.net/@dekenow Check out my web site: https://deke.com For my long-running courses at LinkedIn Learning: https://linkedin.com/learning/instructors/deke-mcclelland Follow me on TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@dekenow Sponsors and Affiliates: [email protected] [CHAPTERS] 00:00 Why Use the High Pass Filter? 02:09 Comparing Unsharp Mask 03:46 Comparing Smart Sharpen 04:33 Comparing High Pass 05:40 Eight Steps to Professional Sharpening 07:21 Jump a Copy of the Image 07:57 How the High Pass Filter Works 09:06 Setting an Ideal Radius Value 10:25 Dropping Out the Grays with a Contrast Mode 12:31 Defeating Color Aberrations with Desaturate 13:44 Reducing the Opacity to Taste 16:45 Smoothing Over Pores and Other Skin Textures 18:22 Using the Reduce Noise Filter 20:59 So What Do You Think?