December 2014
Intermediate to advanced
752 pages
42h 35m
English
Content preview from Adobe Photoshop CC for Photographers, 2014 Release, 2nd Edition
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This chapter is all about how to pre-sharpen your photographs in Photoshop and reduce image noise. Here, I will be discussing which types of images need pre-sharpening, which don’t and what are the best methods to use for camera captured or scanned image files.
In previous editions of this book I found it necessary to go into a lot of detail about how to use the Unsharp Mask filter and the Photoshop refinement techniques that could be used to improve the effectiveness of this filter. Now that the sharpening and noise reduction controls in Camera Raw have been much improved, I strongly believe that it is best to carry out the capture sharpening ...