From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Advanced
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Understanding the Gamma value - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Advanced
Understanding the Gamma value
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- [Male Instructor] In this movie I'll introduce you to the so-called gamma value which allows you to modify the midtones independently of the white and black points inside of an image. I'm going to go ahead and take this Properties panel and move it back in here with the Adjustments panel just so I can see the Histogram panel at the same time. What I want you to notice is how it's balanced. Even though it starts over here with black and it ends with white and it doesn't look like we have that much clipping. Everything's in pretty good shape even though obviously we've got a lot of gaps now between our various levels. The entire mountain range of this histogram sort of leans over to the right which tells us that the image predominantly comprises very bright midtones and highlights. As, of course, is witnessed here inside the image window. What the gamma value allows us to do is modify that balance. What I'm going to do is bring back my Properties panel just by double-clicking in the…
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Contents
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The best in automated selections1m 23s
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Introducing the Color Range command6m
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Customizing a Color Range selection4m 38s
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Localized Color Clusters and Detect Faces6m 57s
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Selecting a real-world photographic object4m 40s
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Cleaning up with the Wand and Brush tools9m 51s
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Refining your mask to absolute perfection12m 49s
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Shading the airplane to match the sky7m 15s
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Infusing the airplane with sky colors6m 20s
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Adding a custom Motion Blur effect4m 27s
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Adding a rocket plume4m 32s
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Introducing the Focus Area command4m 31s
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Using the Focus Area tool4m 50s
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Cleaning up a jagged Focus Area mask9m 42s
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Finessing hair and other details7m 25s
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Compositing like a pro2m 2s
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Static selection vs. dynamic layer mask6m 35s
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Perfecting mask edges with the Smudge tool4m 46s
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White reveals, black conceals6m 43s
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Real-world layer masking7m 21s
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Combining multiple passes of Color Range6m 38s
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Painting away gaps in a layer mask11m 55s
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Making your mask the best it can be11m 32s
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Feather and Density = even better hair8m 12s
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Introducing the Select and Mask command5m 19s
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The Global Refinements settings4m 18s
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Edge Detection and Smart Radius6m 54s
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Refine Edge Brush and Decontaminated Colors5m
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Turning day into night with Camera Raw2m 46s
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Blending hair into a nighttime sky8m 32s
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Bringing back Refine Mask5m 24s
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Meet the transformations1m 32s
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Introducing the Free Transform command7m 9s
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Skewing and distorting a layer5m 31s
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Bending and otherwise warping a layer6m 54s
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Creating a cheerful bat-faced moon5m 51s
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Real-world scaling and compositing8m 8s
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Quick-and-dirty layer masking4m 25s
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Transform and duplicate in one operation8m 2s
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Removing the color from a layer5m 17s
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Transforming a selection outline5m 49s
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Repeating one or more transformations8m 32s
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Transforming and warping text8m 31s
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Filling text with a warped gradient6m 24s
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Indestructible envelopes1m 46s
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Three ways to create a smart object4m 51s
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Applying nondestructive transformations7m 14s
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Applying nondestructive distortions6m 21s
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Masking smart objects8m 53s
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Editing the contents of a smart object10m 2s
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Applying editable smart adjustments6m 44s
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Applying and blending smart filters6m 43s
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Editing a filter mask6m 53s
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Applying Camera Raw as a smart filter5m 30s
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Opening a Camera Raw smart object3m 39s
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Two ways to duplicate a smart object5m 45s
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Protecting editable text5m 8s
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Using nested smart objects5m 25s
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Editing text inside a nested smart object3m 12s
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Pasting smart objects from Illustrator6m 3s
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Applying Photoshop effects to Illustrator art4m 29s
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Troubleshooting Illustrator smart objects4m 58s
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Restoring missing details45s
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"Uncropping" a photo by expanding the canvas5m 11s
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Using the Content-Aware Scale command7m 36s
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Restoring a missing photographic element9m 42s
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Fitting an image to a custom print size8m 23s
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Applying an image stack mode6m 47s
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Combining a stack mode with spot healing4m 5s
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Erasing people with the Median mode7m 19s
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Blurring away registration problems4m 21s
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Auto-blending multiple depths of field6m 34s
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Auto-blending with more flexibility5m 35s
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Perfecting the human form1m 13s
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Introducing the Liquify filter8m 7s
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Using the Pucker and Bloat tools9m 29s
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The Twirl, Push, and Smooth tools7m 2s
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Using Liquify’s masking tools8m 23s
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Face-Aware Liquify5m 29s
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Special face-recognition scenarios5m 21s
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Making direct edits with the Face tool3m 59s
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Resetting any and all facial features3m 55s
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Photoshop’s alternative to pixels1m 15s
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How vector-based shape layers work5m 34s
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Adjusting the roundness of a rectangle5m 59s
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Creating a dashed or dotted border8m 42s
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Drawing and aligning custom shapes5m 14s
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Creating your own custom shape5m 23s
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Designing a custom shape in Illustrator6m 12s
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Selecting, modifying, and combining shapes7m 43s
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Duplicating and centering shapes6m 21s
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Centering a star inside a circle3m 30s
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Beveling your shapes with Pillow Emboss5m 56s
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Combining shapes into a smart object6m 33s
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Applying lighting and photorealism8m 2s
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Converting text to a shape layer5m 33s
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Editing the shape of a character of type5m 10s
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Blending layers like a pro1m 25s
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Normal and Dissolve4m 54s
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Using the Dissolve mode5m 44s
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Multiply and the other darken modes6m 20s
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Using the Multiply mode6m 59s
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Screen and the other lighten modes4m 49s
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Using the Screen mode9m 31s
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Using the Dodge and Burn modes5m 38s
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Overlay and the contrast modes7m 17s
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Using the Overlay and Soft Light modes6m 32s
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Difference, Exclusion, Subtract, and Divide6m 15s
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Capturing the differences between images4m 57s
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Hue, Saturation, Color, and Luminosity7m 55s
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Blend mode keyboard shortcuts5m 48s
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The Brush tool blend modes5m 34s
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The remarkable "Fill Opacity Eight"7m 29s
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Blend If: This Layer and Underlying Layer7m 28s
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Depth, contour, and texture1m 32s
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Applying a Drop Shadow6m 23s
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Working with Fill Opacity4m 5s
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Applying an Inner Shadow6m 19s
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Working with Global Light5m 6s
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Creating blurry, spray paint-style type7m 57s
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Creating your own custom Contour5m 43s
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Introducing Bevel & Emboss7m 13s
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Combining multiple layer effects4m 18s
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Copying effects between layers and groups5m 2s
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Assigning multiple strokes to a single layer6m 42s
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Combining multiple drop shadows4m 59s
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Mastering the histogram1m 20s
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Correcting an image automatically6m 2s
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Customizing a Levels adjustment5m 54s
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Previewing clipped pixels6m 10s
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Understanding the Gamma value4m 27s
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Making channel-by-channel adjustments7m 4s
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Cleaning up scanned line art7m 5s
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Cleaning up complex mechanicals5m 53s
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Quicker layer masks with Levels7m 5s
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Introducing the Curves adjustment7m 22s
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The Curves Targeted Adjustment tool5m 27s
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Assigning shortcuts to adjustment layers5m 51s
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Photoshop’s most powerful plug-in returns1m 12s
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Automatic lens correction and Defringe6m 9s
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Auto-correcting a JPEG image5m 13s
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Auto-correcting an undocumented photo6m 24s
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Auto-Straighten, Transform, and Upright6m 23s
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Using the Tone Curve graphs6m 2s
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Painting with the Adjustment Brush7m
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Using the Graduated Filter tool6m 2s
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Using the Radial Filter tool6m 57s
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Dehaze and Post-Crop Vignetting6m 13s
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Shoot in color, convert to black & white1m 53s
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Three ways to convert to grayscale6m 17s
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Introducing the Channel Mixer6m 32s
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Mixing a custom black-and-white image6m
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Creating an infrared/snow effect4m 36s
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Introducing the Black & White adjustment2m 31s
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Customizing a Black & White adjustment4m 57s
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Tinting an image3m 21s
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Blending black-and-white with color5m 2s
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Convert to Grayscale in Camera Raw5m 51s
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Split Toning in Camera Raw3m 45s
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Infusing black and white with color1m 29s
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Quick-and-dirty colorization3m 11s
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Creating a professional quality sepia tone3m 27s
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The best of the best: Gradient Map4m 57s
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Loading my free, tailor-made gradients5m 8s
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Designing your own custom quadtone5m 22s
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Creating psychedelic arbitrary maps4m 38s
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How sharpening works1m 40s
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Introducing Unsharp Mask7m 16s
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Blending your sharpening effect4m 54s
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Reining in sharpness with a filter mask6m 47s
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Introducing Smart Sharpen5m 33s
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Remove: Lens Blur and Reduce Noise4m 32s
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Preventing shadow/highlight clipping3m 49s
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Compensating for camera shake4m
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Further compensating with Emboss3m 20s
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Sharpening with the High Pass filter4m 11s
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Painting with the Sharpen tool2m 8s
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