Chapter 11. Sharpening
Obviously, you failed to detect the subtle diamond pattern in my tie. | ||
| --Niles from Frasier | ||
This chapter is about those very subtle details that can make the difference between a so-so image and one that pops off the page. Almost all digital images start life looking slightly soft. It’s just a fact of life that all of our capture devices (digital cameras, scanners, and so on) can’t deliver as much detail as the original image contained. (High-end drum scans are the one exception because they get sharpened during the scanning process.) Only images that are created from scratch in Photoshop or another program (like a 3D rendering ...
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