The Photoshop® CS Book for Digital Photographers

Sharp-Dressed Man: professional sharpening techniques

Photographer | Dave Moser

Okay, I have to admit, not every sharpening technique in this chapter is a professional technique. For example, the first one, “Basic Sharpening,” is clearly not a professional technique, although many professionals sharpen their images exactly as shown in that tutorial (applying the Unsharp Mask to the RGB composite—I’m not even sure what that means, but it sounds good). There’s a name for these professionals—“lazy.” But then one day, they think to themselves, “Geez, I’m kind of getting tired of all those color halos and other annoying artifacts that keep showing ...