Enhancing Image Quality

[SweetHoney]

This is my last tut for now, sicne the others are on Gifs. Sorry If I've done too many tuts

Lets take this picture of Nerine for Shuffle!



See it is a bit blurry? And Don't mind the small size of it


Ok now I use the magic wand since this is just plain white background. I extracted the bg and this is what it looks like now



Ok now I duplicate the layer. Now I go to Filter-Noise-Median 5px

Now click Layer Style-Blending Options-Soft Light

You should then get this



See? it is alot better quality.

Now if there is still some nosey pixels, select the bottom layer and go Blur-Smart Blur- Any Radius and Threshold you want You just keep choosing what the Radius is, the Threshold then you want it high or low quality.

When you finish that go to Layers-Merge Visible

Also another tip I save my extracted backgrounds in PNG. format

Now for the final result




Mind You it is a bit messy

[psxiso]

your tutorial destroy some of the hair,,, not very good.

[maxpowerr]

he is right, but the tutorial is not bad

[paragan]

Wow that is great.
How long you draw such kind of picture?

[dragoncrusher]

its ok i guest

[ryoko_neo]

It does enhance the color

[White-Gust]

I guest This tut is really nice.
It's really doesn't enhance much from a small image, but it really working nicely if U enhance some images from a scanned image. Because an image resulted from a scan have some brick on it (it happen a lot if U get some art book with a large size). And also about the color, I think it's really doesn't matter. Because U can adjust the color using Image>Adjustment>Level.

^_^

[aoie_emesai]

It does enhance the images in some portions but overall it does improves it, somewhat. Mostly it's better for those jpeg artifacts infested images. I use that noise filter on CS2 that works really well with the median noise filter too, but I only use it at 1 pixel.