Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One

2.

Choose the Smart Sharpen filter. Go

to the Filter menu and choose Sharpen→

Smart Sharpen to display the Smart

Sharpen dialog box, complete with a

cropped preview, as you can see in

Figure 7-4. When the Preview check box

is turned on, Photoshop applies the ef-

fect to the larger image window as well.

Preview is turned on by default, and I

can think of only two reasons to turn it

off: First, you may want to compare

before-and-after versions of an image, and

second, you’re working on a large image

and the program just can’t keep up with

your changes.

Figure 7-4.

Virtually every image you edit will require some amount of sharpening.

This means you’ll be choosing Smart Sharpen a lot. To save you some effort

(the damn thing’s in a submenu, after all), I’ve assigned it a shortcut. If you

loaded dekeKeys, as I advised in the Preface, you can invoke Smart Sharpen

by pressing Shift+F6. My logic? Smart Sharpen has two S’s; Shift and 6 (of

F6) do too. For whatever reason, that’s been enough to stick it in my head.

3. Set the zoom ratios for the image previews. Press Ctrl+1 (-1)

to set the image window to the 100 percent view size. Then click

a couple of times on the minus sign (–) below the preview in the

Smart Sharpen dialog box to reduce that preview to 50 percent.

Now you can gauge the results of your changes in two ways.

Why did I use 100 and 50 percent? Because the 100