Photoshop Tutorial - Basic Sharpening

It's a little known fact that most digital photographs need some sort of sharpening to have them looking perfectly focused. In this tutorial I'll be looking at how Photoshop produces the sharpening effect, as well as how the Sharpen, Sharpen Edges, Sharpen More and the Unsharp Mask filters work.
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Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• photoshop
• sharpening
• sharpen
• unsharp
• mask
• edges
• contrast
• focus
• focusing
• adobe
• 3photoshop

[colourmegone]

Extremely helpful, I was just winging it in Unsharp Mask. Thanks for posting this.

[MattyBoy7777]

No probs, glad it helped!

[CommanderCodpiece]

Thank you, MattyBoy7777! Best 10 minutes of Photoshop training I've ever had. I just applied your instructions to an image that was resisting my clumsy attempts to sharpen it and voilà. Perfection. Thanks, also, for explaining the history of the term "unsharp mask," which has always seemed like the most illogical name possible for this tool.

Oh, and one more thanks for the tip on toggling the cursor on/off the preview panel to see effect. Exxxxxxcellent.

[MattyBoy7777]

Thanks, that's tall praise indeed.

I'm glad you enjoyed the video, it's always good to know how effective they are for future reference.

If you're interested, I have some more sharpening videos at my website - 3photoshop - that you may find useful.

Thanks again!

[gera562prmnt]

What program did u use?

[MattyBoy7777]

Photoshop CS2

[kami645464]

Thanks very helpful! :)

[OneHandOrigami]

Thank you for this.

[xRoCKSTaR914x]

nice tut dude helped me out

[kaymac01]

Nicely done tutorial. Thanks v. much.