Chapter 6

Sharpening Photos

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Chapter Goals

Just about every digital camera produces images a little bit soft. Some cameras are much sharper than the lower-end models, but even the best sensors aren’t quite as crisp as you might like. In this chapter, you learn how to

  • Sharpen photos using Adobe Camera Raw

  • Sharpen images using the High Pass filter

  • Use the Photo Editor Sharpen tools

When you use any one of a variety of sharpening effects in Elements, you find that sharpening typically is the result of increasing contrast between light and dark pixels adjacent to each other. You should always zoom in on a photo after applying sharpening to ...

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