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Sharpen with Vivid Light and Surface Blur

Sharpen with Vivid Light and Surface Blur - Photoshop Tutorial

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Sharpen with Vivid Light and Surface Blur

We're now going to look at a different approach to sharpening, one that involves the use of the Surface Blur filter. It's not very obvious to use a blurring filter to create a sharpening effect. And yet that is what we can achieve with this Surface Blur filter which will blur everything but the edges in your image This is the finished version. So we have the background layer and on top of this we have a group. In this group there are two layers. The top layer is inverted and has the Surface Blur filter applied to it. And that Surface Blur is applied with a blending mode of Luminosity. The blending mode of the group is set to Overlay and the blending mode of the top most layer within that group is set to Vivid Light. And if we turn off that group even that fit-in window view we can see the effect. So there's the before and there's the after. I'm now going to go to 100% view. Before, After. I'm now going to switch over to the beginning state. And I'm going to start by duplicating the…

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