Extreme Detail Enhancement

Extreme detail enhancement (or super sharpening) has always had the problem of bringing out lots of JPEG artifacts, or jaggies. While there have been loads of filters to counteract this problem few filters allow you to really improve the detail of a shot and still keep a usable image.

While the Dave hill photo effect has been around for a long time I've only recently had cause to purchase the Lucis Art filter. At over £150 it's quite expensive unless you have a commercial use for it but recently I wanted to bring out the detail of a couple of special images. While recreating the famous look I found the filter had a stunning range of detail enhancement which I hadn't anticipated.

While the filter will indeed super-enhance your images and bring out the detail like never before, at the lower end of the slider (and it is a complete no-brainer to use, slider control), you can bring out just a little bit of detail making your images really pop off the screen.

Used correctly this can be batch applied to all of your images from a shoot giving you and your clients instant 'wow' factor.

Combined with a little skin softening on faces, darkening to counteract the brightening effect of the filter and some saturation adjustment and you have a stunning new level of photographic imagery.