💥 DOING THIS will make your PORTRAITS POP and come to life: My 20/10 Technique

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This simple technique works great for bringing Portraits to Life and making them POP! I regularly get comments saying that the portraits I take look like they're coming forward of the screen / paper; in this video I show how I do it in Photoshop.

🎬 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎
00:00 - Introduction
01:16 - The 20/10 Portrait POP Technique Explained
03:34 - 20/10 Technique Step by Step
04:14 - UnSharp Mask Settings (Part 1)
05:15 - Controlling WHERE the Portraits POP (Part 1)
06:24 - UnSharp Mask Settings (Part 2)
07:02 - Controlling WHERE the Portraits POP (Part 2)
08:22 - Wrap Up

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❗𝐌𝐲 𝟑𝟗-𝟒𝟓 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐫 𝟐 𝐕𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭

👍 𝐀𝐰𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜, 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐬 (𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐝)

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✍ 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝘆 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 📘 𝗔𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗼𝗻

𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 / 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫: @𝐠𝐥𝐲𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐬

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[keithaguilar]

Where's this technique been all my professional life? Extremely useful.

[dchillman]

Your 20/10 technique is spot on. I'll make it a permanent step in my workflow. What impressed me the most was how natural it looks; no annoying artifacts. Thanks!

[abdullahharun]

It's a pleasure to meet you and to discover your channel. The beauty of your heart is reflected on your face. your teaching technique is excellent. thanks

[scottstover]

I had seen this video a while back and had to look it up for some current work, just printed 50 portraits of Vietnam vets and the results were amazing...great tutorial, thanks

[johnnilsson]

Maybe mention that a shallow depth of field helps with the effect? I did this to a recent portrait with somewhat ok results. I've actually done a version of this technique on my FineArt flowers that has a crazy depth of field with excellent results. People often tell me that my prints have a 3D-effect with flowers popping out of the frame!

Great video!!

[jetsonjoe]

Excellent info...thanks...this even applies to painting portraits...most helpful

[RobertBilling]

Awesome stuff, fantastic intuitive explained.

[MultiGaspasser]

Trie this technique and simply fe fell in love with it. Thanks so much.

[romainvoeller]

Thanks so much for the video. I used this for effect for the first time on a head shot I did on my grandson and it worked wonderfully. A great effect I'll be using as I start a new portrait project.

[tw]

Beautiful portrait of Mr. Allen!

Yes, I do the same technique with a single, smart object base layer of the portrait. The unsharp mask is a smart filter applied to the single base layer. On top of that base layer is a group folder and inside are adjustment layers (not multiple copies of the base layer, just adjustment layers.) The adjustment layers all have blacked out masks and represent exposure +-, saturation +-, contrast +-. I then just take an oval shaped brush and paint white on the masks at 10% flow. (I use oval instead of round because I like that better for healing and cloning for skin retouching and just keep the same shape for this.)

I have an action that automatically sets up the unsharp mask smart filter and the big group folder of adjustment layers, so it is quite easy. And actually FUN having exposure, saturation, etc just sitting there and waiting to be painted (+ or -) on the portrait.

My thing is that I kind of _HATE_ multiple copies of the base layer so I just try to figure out as much as I can without them. (The occasions when I use frequency separation is an example of when I do have to use multiple copies of the same layer).

My base layer is technically a "place linked" link to a separate RAW file that is just linked to inside the PSD.... but that's another story.

Anyway, you are a master at this, and I am picking up so many wonderful insights from you. Thank you so much!

[madhusoodanshimoga]

👌👌👌👌👌 thanks a ton. That was simply brilliant!!!!

[andrefelixstudio]

Congratulations on your gallery showing that’s gonna be a fantastic feeling more power to you!

[case]

Love your video. I will definitely try them out. Thanks for sharing.

[marjorie]

Thank you Glyn! This tutorial works beautifully, and is my YTvideo #1 of 2022. MERCI!

[real]

Even a simpleton like me can understand this. Thanks Glyn from Oz.

[SEAKPhotog]

Interesting. Going to have to try it. Thanks for sharing!

[akaido]

Glyn, no words to describe how I like your vides and how they are useful to me. Thanks again

[billbrowning]

Glyn, you are amazing! Unsharp mask. Fantastic.

[curtisclement]

BRAVO! Thank you for your education. It makes me a better photographer and my customers will be happier!

[HarshvardhanSaboo]

You just gave a gem, that I feel like I don't want to share with anyone. It's my precious. Hahaha .... Thanks for the technique, Glyn.