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Exploring advanced sharpening techniques - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Inkjet Printing for Photographers
Exploring advanced sharpening techniques
Hopefully, by now you've come to see that sharpening is like a lot of image editing operations in that it's a very subjective thing. One person's sharp image might be another person's blurry image or another person's really over-sharpened image. So sharpening is really a matter of personal taste, and you'll come to understand what sharpening settings you like as you do more printing. But there are also other factors that weigh on your sharpening decisions, one we've already seen, which is the problem of the exaggerating noise. The other has to do with more just an understanding of how sharpen should work in an image. I have here a landscape image that I have finished editing. I haven't done my printing edits yet, but I've sized it, and now I want to try some sharpening passes, and I've got a few concerns in this image. First of all, I have a lot of fine detail here in the foreground. I'm going to want that sharpened. But then I have these big puffy clouds up here, and this was a…
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Understanding how sharpening works3m 18s
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Sharpening in JPEG mode1m 26s
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Exploring sharpening workflows3m 47s
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Sharpening in Camera Raw6m 17s
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Looking at noise reduction1m 46s
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Sharpening output with Smart Sharpen11m 52s
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Understanding selective sharpening4m 25s
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Sharpening through an edge mask7m 17s
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Reviewing high-pass sharpening4m 30s
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Applying aggressive sharpening8m 53s
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Exploring advanced sharpening techniques9m 7s
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Exploring the Print dialog11m 35s
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Proofing at smaller sizes3m 3s
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