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Sharpening your photos for clean edges, revisiting definition

Sharpening your photos for clean edges, revisiting definition - Photos for OS X Tutorial

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Sharpening your photos for clean edges, revisiting definition

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- Sharpening is one of those things that you do to an image towards the end of the adjustment process. I recommend doing it as one of the final steps because it allows you to bring back some of the details that might be lost. Now sometimes this is due to the sensor and other times, it's going to be emphasized by problems caused by filters, particularly third party filters, that you might add to an image. Let's go ahead and keep working with the previous image here and I'll press the Z key to zoom to 100% and I'll pan down into this area with the rocks and the tree. What we're going to do here is take a look at overall sharpness. And so as we increase sharpness, pay attention to the tree there. You'll notice that the edges really start to pop. Now, chances are you're not going to max that out, but I'm going to take this up really strong so you can clearly see what's happening there as the edges are defined. And then…

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