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Unsharp Mask and Smart Sharpen

Unsharp Mask and Smart Sharpen - Photoshop Tutorial

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Unsharp Mask and Smart Sharpen

- [Instructor] So for the first of our sharpening filters, we are going to look at Smart Sharpen, and also compare it with Unsharp Mask. Here's our finished result, and this is the approach I'm going to be taking with all of these movies. We'll start at the end, looking at the finished result and then we'll recreate from scratch. So you can see it's converted to a smart filter and I have applied Smart Sharpen. Now switch over to the beginning state. Step number one, I'm going to right-click just to the right of the word background on the background layer, and convert to a smart object. Then come to the filter menu, sharpen, Unsharp Mask. Now Unsharp Mask is very similar to Smart Sharpen, it is the forerunner of Smart Sharpen. It has an amount and a radius value. The amount is essentially the volume control, and the radius is the width of the edge that is being sharpened. The amount goes from zero to 500, currently at 500, that's way too much. I'm going to set that back to 150. And the…

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