Freaky AMAZING Detail

[@AnthonyMorganti]

In this tutorial, I demonstrate a trick I learned from the photographer Calvin Hollywood. This is a technique that he uses to extract as much detail as possible from an image. He calls it, "Freaky Amazing Detail".
Most of Calvin's RUclips channel is in German. You can visit it here:
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[@paulmason6102]

Great stuff. I maybe wrong but i think this a great up date of an action I have been using for
a long time called FreakyAmazingDetail_2. Keep up the good work.

[@bohdanchekan143]

Dear Anthony thanks so much for amazing Freaky Detail tutorial lesson ✍️🎨😍

[@EdCatlett]

This is cool. Also note that you can change opacity of the folder to decrease the overall effect or even better, put a mask onto the folder and use a black/gray brush to softening the effect in select areas.

[@calvinweischeslischt]

Thank you for the credits. Gold old times... :-) So happy to hear my name here. Its better to follow your account, i am not so active anymore. Thanks Anthony!

[@AnthonyMorganti]

Thank you for all you do Calvin!

[@chrisschindler7634]

Holy cow I finally had an image that I thought this video would be good to try on. A bee in a flower photo that I was rather impressed with myself before on. But after following this video I am amazed!! Really works. Thanks Anthony!

[@Stealthman42]

Fantastic info! Thank you Calvin and Anthony!!!

[@ANU3NAY6]

This is such an awesome trick. Thanks for sharing sir!

[@blackislepeastoo]

Brings a whole new meaning to FAD.

[@Namaste..]

Very interesting. Sure would like to see a similar demonstration using affinity photo!

[@XXX-vy6xv]

Wanted to add the exact same comment.

[@bhovis]

I tried this on Affinity Photo and it works great. There's only one difference - AP has no Surface Blur filter, but I found that it works with Gaussian Blur. I used a radius of 1px., and fine tuned with layer opacity on the Group layer.

[@rickversteeg7075]

@@bhovis I tried with Bilateral Blur and it also works like a charm. Affinity may be even slightly easier as all you have to do is apply a live filter to that inverted background copy layer, thus enabling tweaking later on.

[@bhovis]

@@rickversteeg7075 Thanks, I'll try Bilateral Blur.

[@dermotcolgan]

Fantastic ! I recorded it as an action (virtually one click now). Thank you.

[@TomWindeknecht]

Great tip and trick!

[@DjoserPhoto]

Thank you very much. Works really well, made a action for it.

[@robertllawrencejr5503]

That was neat. I am going to have to give it try. It kind of looks like dynamic contrast in ON1 Photo Raw

[@franksamet]

Not something you’d just stumble over, but interested to try this now. Thank you.

[@jayeshtopiwala3219]

Hi Anthony ,
I have applied same technique on a landscape images and it brought out amazing details.Thanks you both.

[@rlfisher]

Wow - that really fixed an image I tried it on. Would really like to understand WHAT it is doing and WHY that works, rather than just the recipe. Really appreciate your channel.

[@oldtvnut]

Summary: enhances detail in areas of like color, but not edges, so no excessive halos. Does this by blurring the negative mask in areas but not edges. Success depends on the Surface Blur filter successfully recognizing the difference between an area and its edges.

[@mrdev9843]

Nice job and now I know just how big photoshop is 👍👍

[@JohnChubbSr]

Really cool trick! Thanks, Anthony!!!

[@petermarshall5450]

This is a WOW tutorial.....thanks so much for this and all the others! Peter

[@gerritm.8102]

Always loving your video's. Greeting from the Netherlands-Amsterdam

[@shlomoeshet8525]

Wow, I must try it out myself, especially this period of time when I'm almost obsessed with macro photography. Thanks a lot, Anthony.

[@lewis1716]

I wonder if AM could give an explanation for why this works as well as it does. I also notice that it picked up & opened shadow detail like crazy, approx. .5 to 1 stop. Pretty amazing.

[@iqueque]

Thanks so much for translating Calvin’s technique. Please do some more : I love his extraordinary and original processes, but don’t understand German.

[@BobG-eh5fc]

Wow, great tutorial, thanks for sharing.

[@ednordstrom2723]

OMG. I did this on a rose photo, and I just about fell out of my chair.

[@grahamegannon9708]

I give iy a try on a blurry image a Buzzard and it work. Thanks for this great tup Anthony.

[@danielrao3120]

Hello Anthony. I've tried this technique in Photoshop. My results indicate that even at low "Surfacr Blur" settings strange artifacts can be seen especially when the image is viewed at 100%. I don't have much confidence in this technique. But thanks for taking all the trouble to share your ideas.

[@wolfgangbitzker6432]

I like your Tutorials ver much. Always somthing to learn. Greetings from the capital of germany.

[@genewhitney5993]

Wow. Not exactly intuitive, but very impressive. Props to Calvin Hollywood and Anthony for passing it along to us.

[@richardterrell5309]

That's a nice one to know! Thankyou.

[@photonsonpixels]

Great tip! Thank you.

[@billmeador215]

Great video and does produce an improved image...........however being a novice with Photoshop steps such as this I do have a question. When done applying the detail steps do you flatten the image before saving to a file for printing or posting?

[@Nonduality]

Thank you. It works well.

[@jody1622]

Wow!

[@gajananrao6718]

Thanks for the vid. I created a action to do the same. One question : would you call this "sharpening" or "local contrast enhancement" ?

[@vincentandrunas6040]

Looks like a great trick! But I only have Photoshop CS 5.1. When I tried to reproduce these steps, after the "Vivid Light" blending change on the Layer 1 Copy, I got the heavily-saturated image--but then when I hit Ctrl-I (Invert), instead of that heavily-saturated image reverting back to looking much like the original (as was shown in the video), I got something that looks like a mask (a mostly gray field, with some greenish-yellow areas and a few streaks of other colors). Next (whether I do the "Convert to Smart Object" step or not), when I go to Filter/Blur/Surface Blur (using the same Radius and Threshold numbers as in the video) and hit OK, I see definite sharpening and detail increase of the "mask-like" image--but I don't see the finished, full-color, sharpened image like the video shows. Is there an additional step that I need to do (perhaps because I'm using this older CS 5.1 version of Photoshop)? (Trying "Flatten Image" didn't help...)
Please help!
Thanks!

[@yvonneprance3745]

hi Anthony, would you know the equivalent of the smart object in Affinity by any chance ?? cheers...

[@bhovis]

Yes, it call a Live Filter in Affinity Photo. Layer->New Live Filter Layer-> *choose a filter*

[@yvonneprance3745]

@@bhovis thank you xx

[@birdsandscratch8331]

Amazing. Almost works as well as Topaz sharpen AI

[@dimitristsagdis7340]

Very useful tnx

[@bentleybloodworth4282]

Have you tried in photoshop the smart sharpen? Make the image a smart object then go to Filter> sharpen> smart sharpen and adjust, how does it compare to the steps you done in this video? The steps in the video do look great and I might make an action for it once I mess with it and compare to smart sharpen to see if it is better. Thanks for the tip.

[@kennethrohen5963]

"Hollywood" is a very old, noble German surname.

[@danielrao3120]

Hello Anthony. Another interesting video and technique. Is "Freaky Amazing Detail" another sharpening technique, or is it used in addition to sharpening an image usng as alternative method, for example, sharpening in Lightroom or indeed Adobe Camera Raw? I'd very much like to know. Finally, thank you again for some wonderful videos. Daniel

[@seabreezeof]

I've been using FAD for a few years, learned it from Calvin's friend Serge...Watch for Halo's. Also create an action for FAD

[@leonardscotto2870]

Thanks for this video Anthony, I noticed that when I used this technique that it introduces noise into the image. Do you recommend using DeNoise first before or after you use this technique or would you recommend doing something else to reduce the noise? Your videos are great and have helped me tremendously, thanks!

[@coconuthair]

I really like your video. I am just curious? Why take all those steps instead of just doing it with a single picture?

[@snoopaka]

How does that compare to Topaz sharpen Ai. Great tip and video!

[@behramcooper3691]

I could not see the difference, perhaps due to the RUclips algorythm. Can I do the same thing in Affinity Photo?

[@bhovis]

Yes. However, AP does not have Surface Blur, so instead use Gaussian Blur or Bilateral Blur on a New Live Filter.

[@charlesmargrave4214]

No longer use any Adobe products except Bridge. So will give this a try in On1 Photo Raw 2021 and Affinity Photo. Do believe this is to much definition for your flower image. but say for a macro of a coin it would be perfect.

[@bhovis]

It definitely works in Affinity Photo (using Gaussian Blur instead of Surface Blur), but I was not able to do it in On1 because AFIK it cannot create layer groups like Photoshop or Affinity.

[@jorgedesousa8361]

Thank you for producing these informative videos. Sorry for the newbie question. Would this technique be a good alternative to using sharpening or should I still use sharpening? Thanks in advance.

[@bhovis]

This technique has a different effect than regular sharpening, and I think it’s very good. It will probably depend on the individual photo, and the result you’re after, but I would try both approaches and compare. Maybe you’ll end up with a blend of both. Like so much in photo editing, it’s a matter of experimentation.

[@jorgedesousa8361]

@@bhovis Thank you for the explanation.

[@KenToney]

Question, why the second layer in the group? BTW Calvin is awesome, met him at PSW about 10 years ago!

[@calvinweischeslischt]

Whats up Ken? :-)

[@AnthonyMorganti]

The top layer in the group is being blended with the second layer in the group using Vivid Light and the entire group is getting blended to the background layer using Overlay. So you'll need all three layers with the top two layers being in a group.

[@dennisskinner4457]

Can this be done with DXO?

[@mdturnerinoz]

Being as you and I both have Topaz Sharpen AI, how does this method compare results vs time-spent?

[@Greg_Ashley]

Is it possible to do some kind of preset that would perform the "freaky amazing detail" automatically?

[@bazwillrun]

you could create an Action

[@bhovis]

I tried this on a few photos and it's actually pretty quick and easy - by the third photo I could zip through the steps pretty fast.

[@malcolmsutton6740]

Can this be done with other software aside from PS?

[@Docfly62]

Yeah like ON1? Also how is this different than sharpening, adding detail/structure or dynamic contrast?

[@bhovis]

It works perfectly in Affinity Photo, just use Gaussian Blur instead of Surface Blur.

[@bhovis]

@@Docfly62 I tried it in Photoshop and Affinity Photo and it looks (or can look) like a very natural increase in overall resolution, as opposed to regular edge sharpening or fine contrast. I'll see if it works in On1 tomorrow.

[@malcolmsutton6740]

@@bhovis Thanks Bart, I was thinking of getting Affinity but I already have ON1, is it worth having Affinity as well?

[@bhovis]

@@malcolmsutton6740 ON1 is considered a Lightroom replacement but also has a lot of Photoshop’s features and is all most people need. Affinity Photo is a very good Photoshop-type program and a bargain (I think it’s still on sale), and has some features ON1 doesn’t, mainly for graphics arts applications. I think it’s good to have AP for a different approach to editing. PLUS, ON1 has recently made an AP plug-in to make integration between the two programs easy.

[@mattsiler7418]

This appears to be simply another way to sharpen an image or am I missing something? I am not trying to be rude or belittle this (pretty awesome) technique...just thinking out loud.

[@paulmiller4647]

Any relationship to a Steven Morganti from Rochester NY?

[@AnthonyMorganti]

I don't think so. Big family though -- might be a distant relative I've never met.

[@michaelcairnsstudio]

record this as an action and use it over and over

[@richardbradley2641]

snap :-) and I swap surface blur for gaussian blur for a more subtle effect too

[@bhovis]

@@richardbradley2641 I tried it on Affinity Photo, which has no Surface Blur filter, and found that Gaussian blur works very well.

[@pasadenaelk]

Unsharp masking, an ancient darkroom trick. Look it up.

[@tompatton2086]

Unsharp Mask increases haloing. Not having access to Photoshop, I would assume this doesn't. 🤷‍♂️

[@ScotTheGr8]

Flash back from the old Kelby photoshop show days where he brought in different guests, include Calvin.

[@calvinweischeslischt]

Good old times :-)

[@bazwillrun]

He can speak perfect English, ...i'm sure his channel would far bigger if he did ....

[@calvinweischeslischt]

I know, but many things changed and i am in a diffrent game now :-)

[@joshhugo323]

Enough using the shocking face look