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Sharpen with Gaussian Blur

Sharpen with Gaussian Blur - Photoshop Tutorial

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Sharpen with Gaussian Blur

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- [Instructor] Another sharpening technique, this one using the Gaussian blur filter. Again, some what counterintuitive to use a blurring filter to achieve sharpening, but that's the result that we get. So, here's the finished result. Once again, I'm looking at this in window view, the result is going to be somewhat subtle. It may not show up too well on the video, but if I turn off that layer group, there's the before, and there's the after. If I now zoom into 100%, we should be able to see it a lot more clearly, before, and after, and you can see that this one really relies upon just a darkening or an increasing of contrast along the edges in somewhat of a heavy handed way, and there is the addition of a levels adjustment layer, here, which is amping that up perhaps a bit too much. If we turn that off, we can still see a sharpening result, but not quite as brutal a result as we saw before. So, let's start out with the beginning file, and as with the surface blur technique, this one…

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