From the course: Photoshop Layers: Working with Multiple Photos (2018)

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Sharpening and grading the final image

Sharpening and grading the final image - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop Layers: Working with Multiple Photos (2018)

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Sharpening and grading the final image

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- Earlier I showed you how to merge several objects together permanently so that you could apply a filter. In this case, I'm going to make another smart object so it's merged non-permanently in case I need to step in and make change later. Inside the Layers panel make sure you choose the smart object, you'll also see the stack mode indicator on the right and the clone layer. You can now right click and choose to make another smart object with both of those stacked inside. Now what we can do is apply the Camera Raw filter, Filter, Camera Raw. This makes it easy to evaluate the image and look for any clipping. In my case, I'm more interested in sharpening. So, I'm going to drag that down and holding down the option or alt key I could better see things like the radius and the masking so I could better control what is being sharpened as well as affect the noise and I like that option or alt modifier to make it a bit easier to see things. Let's go ahead and grab the graduated filter tool…

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