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Use an unconventional technique involving desaturation to draw attention to detail

The idea that applying an effect that desaturates an image to increase detail may sound impossible, but by applying a bleach bypass effect to your images, you will quickly see how this effect is actually much more useful than simply applying a movie-style colour effect to your shots. It will, of course, change the colouring of your images slightly, but they will maintain a natural look, and the overall effect can be controlled with ease. The bleach bypass effect has been around for a long time, and was first used in the movie industry as a colouring effect. As the name suggests, when processing the transparency film the bleach step was missed out, resulting in increased contrast with desaturation and washed out-looking mid-tones. The effect has been replicated in Photoshop,…

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