Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/27

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Subject: [Leica] Using Masking for sharpening eyes in Lightroom
From: leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams)
Date: Thu Mar 27 20:41:32 2008
References: <20080327203912.E86BBF11@resin17.mta.everyone.net>

That or sit there with your tripod and take HDR's over and over :)

Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alastair Firkin" Subject: Re: [Leica] Using Masking for sharpening 
eyes in Lightroom


> Is this how we can all get those piercing eyes of that afghan girl ;-)
>
>
> --- leicachris@worldnet.att.net wrote:
>
> From: "Christopher Williams" <leicachris@worldnet.att.net>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Using Masking for sharpening eyes in Lightroom
> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:28:02 -0600
>
> Saw this on another website for sharpening eyes in Adobe Lightroom.
>
> Under Sharpening there is the Masking feature.
>
> Open a portrait, zoom in so you see subject's eyes.
>
> Hold Option(Mac) or Alt(PC) while adjusting the Masking feature. The image 
> will go black but you can view detail in the eyes, 
> adjust the masking as you see fit. I made a preset with masking set at 70. 
> The eyes really "pop" out.
>
> My 2 cents for tonight.
>
> Chris
> NOLA


In reply to: Message from afirkin at afirkin.com (Alastair Firkin) ([Leica] Using Masking for sharpening eyes in Lightroom)