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How do I sharpen a photo?

How do I sharpen a photo? - Photoshop Tutorial

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How do I sharpen a photo?

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- Sharpening is the act of enhancing the details in an image and it's normal to need to sharpen, even if a photo is perfectly in focus. That's because compression in the camera sensor can cause a slight loss in detail. Let me show you how to sharpen using the Camera Raw dialog or Camera Raw as a filter. When you have an image open, it's important that you zoom in to 100% so you can really judge the details here on the image itself. If you don't view at 100%, sharpening is really hard to accurately judge. Now switch to the third tab and you'll see sharpening controls. By default, a small amount of sharpening is usually pre-applied. If you hold down the option or the alt key, you can adjust the amount of sharpening. In this case, I'm taking it to a much higher value and you see that some of the details in the water are really starting to come through. But chances are, you don't want to sharpen everything. For example,…

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