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Learn how to do vibrancy masking in Photoshop. You’ll learn how to increase saturation with the Channel Mixer and then use Vibrancy masking to control whether you want it to affect the vibrant or non-vibrant areas. This technique works amazingly well for landscapes and it’s a great when you want to get the most intense and vibrant colors you can from your photo.

The Quick Method:
The quick way to do vibrancy masking is to simply increase the saturation and lower the vibrance. This will increase the vibrancy of your photo while keeping the neutral areas neutral. This technique is good if you only have Lightroom or if you don’t have a lot of time and you think it’s good enough. But if you want something that will give you more intense colors and flexibility, then learn how to do it with the Channel Mixer.

Channel Mixer Vibrancy:
There are several adjustments in Photoshop which an increase the vibrancy of your photo. You can use the Vibrance or Saturation adjustments. There’s also one more way and that is with the Channel Mixer. It gives you really nice intense colors that work great for landscape photos. It’s sort of a mix between the old saturation adjustment and the new vibrance adjustment in that it alters both the saturation and lightness like the vibrance adjustment, but it treats all colors equally like the old saturation adjustment. The vibrance adjustment applies different intensities depending on the hue and lightness. But when we’re doing something like vibrancy masking, we want something that’s straightforward and treats all colors equally. And the Channel Mixer does this job perfectly.

Vibrancy Masking:
Vibrancy masking lets you hide/show a layer according to your photo's vibrancy. You can choose to make your layer appear in the vibrant or non-vibrant areas. By setting the blending mode of your Channel Mixer layer to "Difference", you can easily get a map of the vibrant areas in your photo. You can then use the Apply Image tool to place this into your Channel Mixer layer mask. With some tweaks like auto-levels, you can get an incredibly useful vibrancy mask.

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hello and welcome to this episode of

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Danny's dead today you'll learn a new

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way to boost the colors of your

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landscape photos the technique is 40

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times when the five months or saturation

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adjustments are good enough you learn

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how to increase the saturation with the

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channel mixer and then use vibrancy

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masking to control whether you want to

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the sexy fireman or non private area

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this technique works amazingly well for

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landscapes and it's great when you want

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to get the most intense and vibrant

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colors they can from your photo before

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we start the quick way to define missing

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asking is distinctly increase the

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saturation and then lower d vibrant this

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will increase the vibrancy of your photo

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while keeping the mutual area neutral

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this technique is good if you only have

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lightroom or if you don't have a lot of

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time and you think it's good enough well

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if you want something i will give you

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more intense colors and flexibility and

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keep watching this tutorial and you'll

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learn how to do it in photoshop with the

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channel mixer there are several

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adjustments and photoshop which can

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increase the vibrancy of your photo you

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can use these five mins or saturation

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adjustment there's also one way and that

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is with the channel mixer it gives you

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really nice intense colors that work

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great for landscape photos it's sort of

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a mix between the old saturation

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judgment and a new fibrin adjustment and

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that it alters both the saturation and

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lightness like the fireman's adjustments

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but it treats all colors equally like

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the old saturation adjustment the fibrin

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adjustment applies different intensity

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depending on the cue and lightness but

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when we're doing something like primacy

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masking we want something that's

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straightforward and treats all colors

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equally andy channel mixer does the job

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perfectly here's how to do it start by

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going to the adjustments panel and

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adding a channel mixer adjustment layer

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if you don't see this panel you can open

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it by going to window adjustments

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you cannot make their elective mix and

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parts of one channel on to another

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channel in case you don't know what

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channels are color photos are made from

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three channels a red green and blue

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channel that one combined forms the

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color photo so for example if we select

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the red channel from the drop-down menu

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and suck you read 20 and blue to 100 the

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red channel will look exactly the same

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as a blue channel and this is because we

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told Photoshop can make you read channel

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0% read your present green and a hungry

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% blue you can play around with the

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percentages but whatever number you use

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you generally want to have them all add

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up to one hundred percent so that's what

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the channel mixer is doing but how do we

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use it to make your photo more fitted

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here's how to do it start with the red

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channel set the red to 200 green to

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minus-50 and blue to minus-50 let's tell

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Photoshop to regenerate the channel

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using two hundred percent of the data

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from the red channel minus fifty percent

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from the green channel and line is

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another fifty percent from the blue

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channel we're going to repeat this for

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the green and blue channels so going to

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a green channel and apply the same

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pattern of settings set the green to 200

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and the rest to minus-50 do this one

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more time for the blue channel so 200

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for the Blues and minus 50 for drs now

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you can see that this layer has major

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photo more vibrant before we move on I

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recommend saving this as a preset for

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future use and you can do so by clicking

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on the panel menu and selecting save

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preset 1 sake you can access it from the

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presets drop-down menu anytime you like

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and there you go you just increase the

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saturation using the channel mixer right

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now the channel mixer is affecting the

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entire image and although the colors are

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really popping in the foliage it's also

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making the stone wall look quite orange

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and dirty to fix plus we can add a layer

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mask based on the pharmacy here's how to

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do it change the blend mode of this

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layer two different let's will show you

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the difference between your current

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layer and the layers below and as you

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can see the bright spots are the areas

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where the most vibrant colors are and

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the dark spots our wedding neutral

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colors are

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to create a fibrin see max we can simply

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use the image as the layer mask to do

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this select a layer math in your layers

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panel and then go to image apply image

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this tool lets you place an image onto

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your current layer or layer math the

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default settings are fine and you can

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just click OK change the blending mode

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is definitely your back to normal and

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hold the alt or option key and then

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click on the layer mask this will let

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you see what your layer mask looks like

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right now it's pretty dark so pest

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control our convention of L and now

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apply auto levels to balance things out

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hold alt or option and then click on the

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layer mask again to stop looking at your

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lame at and if you hold the shift key

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while clicking on the layer mask you can

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enable or disable it to preview how it

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look here's how the image looks like

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before and after as you can see the

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vibrancy max really helps to preserve

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the neutral colors you can also use the

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levels tool on the layer mask by

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pressing ctrl or command l and dragging

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the outer notes towards the center which

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will increase the contrast like this if

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there are any gaps that you want to fill

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you can use the brush tool and paint

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inside the mask with either black or

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white if you want the opposite effect

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you can import you am i's by pressing

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the import button in the properties

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panel or by pressing ctrl or command I

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this will make your layer mask affecting

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neutral colors more than the fibrin

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colors and it's useful when you want to

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increase the vibrancy very evening with

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a flatter look and present colors from

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being over saturated by the way if

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you're using photoshop CC and you want

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to blur the layer mask make sure you're

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using a feather setting in the

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properties panel and not get Gaussian

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blur filter because once you blurt layer

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max Wittek filter you can't under it

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will excite our setting it will let you

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adjust the floor as many times as you

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like anytime you want and it's also much

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easier to access we're done you can

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lower the layer opacity can control how

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much five mins you want to add here's

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our the image looks like before and

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after

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here are some more examples of what you

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can achieve with this technique I know

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that some people really like to pump the

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vibrance and saturation to get that

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intense vivid look I've seen gallery

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prints like this and they look great in

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real life but something that I noticed

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was that if you keep parts of your photo

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gray or neutral like the stones rock et

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cetera if you keep the great stuff gray

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it will make the colors around it look

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even more vibrant so hopefully with

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dissecting you can still get those

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intense perfect colors put in a way

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that's a little bit more natural hey

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thanks for watching this video if you

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liked it please let me kiss you like

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button now I gotta admit I don't use

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this technique all of the time most of

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his time t5 into saturation you're good

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enough if your photo has very consistent

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privacy you're not going to notice that

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big of a difference if your photo has

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very fun and colorful errors on one side

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and the opposite on the other then

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you're going to notice a huge difference

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so it depends on the photo without

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you're working on anyway let me know

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what you think in the comments subscribe

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to my channel if you haven't already and

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I'll see you again next week

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