22 thoughts on “How To Enhance Details In Photoshop – Local Contrast Tutorial”

1. Jimmy, I think I love you ;-). I was just struggling with a shot and had that exact problem. Thank you for your generosity, you have no idea how much your tutorials mean to a lot of us. Hope South Korea is treating you both well.

   1. You’re welcome Marianne! I’m glad I could help. South Korea is going brilliantly, thank you 🙂

2. Jimmy I am already a subscriber do I need to enter my email every time to get the downloads

   1. Not at all Gerry. If you’re on the list then you will receive all new resources as soon as they become available 🙂

3. Hey Jimmy,

   I think I’m confusing myself here. Have you sent the “Photoshop Easy Panel” actions yet?

   I thought I needed to redownload the mega pack to get it but I don’t see it.

   Please confirm when time permits. I wanna try it out.

   1. Hey Johnny, thanks for getting in touch. The Easy Panel will be sent to subscribers on Sunday.

      All the best

      1. Thanks.

         I’ll be looking for it…:)

      2. Hey Jimmy. I received your email today and am trying to install the easy panel. Your instructions are for a PC. Do you have instructions for a Mac?

         1. Sorry Johnny, I’m not a Mac user, but I think this tutorial could help you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQThYQzj34g

            1. It worked like a charm.

               Thanks Jimmy.

4. Thanks Jimmy. This is the kind of tools for thge toolbox that I enjoy very much. Thanks
   Just thinking, if I added a mask to the last layer (details enhance layer) and copied the B/W from one of the lumiousity masks, pasted it directly into the mask itself (Alt click on mask), that would be a very good starting point for a dynamic details enhancement

5. Thank you Jimmy! Your tutorials are simply amazing!

6. I am working on a mac and I don’t see a gray layer and when I merge the two layers I just end up with one layer and that’s it. Don’t know what to do with it. It is just blue and black. the other thing is that when i click on detail enhancer on the easy panel it says the command is currently not available.

   1. Hey Patti, the steps should be the same for a Mac or PC, so I’m not sure what it is going wrong. However, for the panel, ‘The command is not currently available’ means the actions haven’t been installed. This is very easy to do. Go to the top right of your actions panel. Scroll down and look for Load Actions. Then just look for your Actions folder and load each one in. The panel should then work.

      Thanks

7. Hello Jimmy, thanks for a good tutorial.

   I am wondering about the values you use for the Surface Blur (Radius to around 34 and the Threshold at about 36). Aren’t those dependant on the size and resolution of the image? That is, the result may differ on a low resolution image and a high resolution image?

   What should I aim for in terms of halos and detail blur if I try to optimize the values for my images?

8. Great tip jimmy! what I’ve found a useful addition to this is, after changing the layer over to vivid light, convert the layer to a smart object before running the surface blur, that way, once you have run the surface blur it will appear as a smart filter attached to the smart object layer, thus giving you the ability to go in and change the radius and threshold values should you need to do so to either increase or decrease the amount of surface blur affecting the layer.

9. You totally lost me at step 5. I followed it exactly as you said. It doesn’t work.

   1. Instead of Shift+ctrl+alt+E, it’s shift+cmd+alt+E for macs.

10. Very cool. This also works with Photoshop Elements (I use version 13).

11. Hi Jimmy. What is the difference between this technique and the High Pass edge enhancement technique?

12. Great technique! Thanks

13. This tut is the best I found yet

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