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Originally Posted by flipper35
Imagine doing that in the old days on film and an airbrush and masks.
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Been there, done that.
One of the much used filters in Photoshop is "unsharp mask" and it is a great way to make an image look sharper. I am too lazy to type out the process of making a film unsharp mask, but I have had to do it in the past.
At my first job I worked with a lady that was in her late 70s, Mrs Adams. She was amazing at using the right bleaches to lighten areas of a print or remove a facial blemish, then add toner and color oils and turn a B&W print into a stunning color photo that looked like an really great oil painting.
We had a clientele of the rich folks that would come in to get a passport photo to go to Europe for a month. We would shoot it on 4x5 film, make the passport photos, then hand the negative to Mrs. Adams. She would make a 16x20 B&W print, and oil it and then frame it in a fancy frame and hang it in the front lobby. When the rich folks came back to get the vacation photos printed, they saw the photo on the wall and would pay big bucks for it. It was a money making thing.