Basic Sharpening
After you’ve color corrected your photos and right before you save your file, you’ll definitely want to sharpen your photos. I sharpen every digital-camera photo, either to help bring back some of the original crispness that gets lost during the correction process, or to help fix a photo that’s slightly out of focus. Either way, I haven’t met a digital camera (or scanned) photo that I didn’t think needed a little sharpening. Here’s a basic technique for sharpening the entire photo.
Step One. | Open the photo that you want to sharpen. Because Photoshop displays your photo in different ways at different magnifications, it’s absolutely critical that you view your photo at 100% when sharpening. To ensure that you’re viewing at 100%, ... |
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