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Sharpen Your Images With More Control Using Photoshop |
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Make your pictures look crystal
clear with sharpening. Scanners and digial cameras make
images
a little soft.
Do not sharpen with the digital camera or scanner. If you
do,
you're stuck
with it forever. Turn off sharpening, you can always
make an image look sharper in Photoshop. Instead of using
the
sharpen filters in photoshop, do it manually. It will offer
more control over your images than the filters and it will
do a much better job. |
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Once you have opened the image in Photoshop, follow these steps: |
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1. Duplicate the layer (ctrl + J, cmd + J) twice. |
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2. Blur the top layer by about three pixels. |
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3. Invert the image (ctrl + I, cmd + I) |
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4. Set the layer opacity to 30 %. You'll get a gray image with black-and-white
haloing. |
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5. Group the top layer to the layer below it (ctrl + G, cmd + G) |
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6. and set that layer to Overlay layer blending. |
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If you turn the layer on and off, you should see the sharpening
effect. You can adust sharpen masking by playing with the layer opacity,
overlay, and blur. Check out the before and after below: |
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Before |
After |
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What just happened? |
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When a layer is inverted and blurred; colors bleed
at the edge of high-contrast areas. Blurring the inverse
of the image leaks light on
light and dark on dark just around the edges (These edges are where you
want to increase the sharpness, not the rest of the image). This increases
the
perception of sharpness when overlayed on the original image. |
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