Sharpening Images in Photoshop
Monday, December 7th, 2009One of the most common tasks in photo retouching is sharpening up the image (or at least parts of an image). No matter what camera you have (or what lens if you have a DSLR) the image will almost always come out a little soft. This Varies from camera to camera and if you have a DSLR you can get sharper results by buying higher quality lenses. Even so, images still tend to need at least a small amount of sharpening no matter what.
This tutorial will go through 3 different methods of sharpening your images. You just need to find which one suits your needs the most. They all work just fine but have different methods and adaptability.
For this tutorial you will need to have an understanding of the following Photoshop techniques:
Layers and Masks
These 3 methods are:
• The UnSharp mask
• High Pass sharpen
• UnSharp mask plus lighten and darken blend modes split over 2 layers.
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