If you always wanted to learn how to properly sharpen your images: here is the answer. I will show you how to do localised and overall sharpening completely non-destructively. Meaning you can always change the intensity and area of your sharpening.

If you want to know more about the pictures used in this tutorial, you can read more about them below the video. Have fun!

Sharpening locally and the whole photo from Martin Perhiniak on Vimeo.

1. photo with the bird: I took it in Budapest Zoo. This bird was stealing the food from the animals in the zoom. Smart.

2. photo: my friend and ex-delegate Dani, check out his blog here: liszteslada

3. photo: my old friend and neighbour Adam’s cat. An evil one. Seriously! 🙂

4. photo: beautiful place in Spain called Guadalest. Near Alicante. Must see!

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Martin Perhiniak

Martin Perhiniak is a Certified Adobe Design Master and Instructor. He was voted to be one of the top 10 Adobe instructors in the world by student feedback in 2015. In his online courses besides the technical knowledge you need, Martin will also teach you a lot about design principles, compositional techniques and plenty of best practices that he picked up and developed while working as a designer and retoucher on projects such as Pixar’s Cars and Toy Story, BBC’s Dr Who or Mattel’s Team Hot Wheels. He feels it his mission to share his insights of the design industry and its latest trends with beginners and creative professionals around the World.

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