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Sharpening output with Smart Sharpen - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Inkjet Printing for Photographers
Sharpening output with Smart Sharpen
Now I'm ready to get to the serious sharpening stage of my workflow. I have gone through all the other bits, I processed my image in Camera Raw, I opened it up here in Photoshop where I did some retouching around her eyes, and I have also created this Levels Adjustment layer to get the image ready for print. And I'd like to take a quick look at that, here is before, here is after. You can see that her face is a little bit brighter. I hope that now when you see the before you can recognize that though it seems to have good contrast it actually looks a little bit ashen compared to here where it's got correct brightness. And I'd like you to look at what I did here, it's nothing that we haven't been doing throughout this course, just want to really reiterate how important this is. I've created a Levels Adjustment layer, and you can see that I dragged the white point over here, I've pulled it in about 10 points so it's not a huge adjustment from 255 to 244, but still it's enough to make 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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