Professional Sharpening Techniques in Photoshop
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Professional Sharpening Techniques in Photoshop

on Dec 7th 2011 with 28 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Adobe Photoshop
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Estimated Completion Time: 25 Minutes

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

You might be surprised how many images are sharpened at some point in Photoshop before you see them in print or online. In this detailed tutorial we will explain how sharpening works, when you should apply sharpening to your images, and how best to do it during the post production process. Let’s get started!

 
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Michael Rather is the Founder and CEO of The Digital Photography Connection, a training resource for professional and amateur photographers. Rather is also the author of numerous Photoshop and Lightroom training DVDs and online courses, and is the host of Photoshop for Digital Photographers, Lightroom for Digital Photographers, and Photography Quick Tips.  

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  • http://www.buzzpromote.com alanbuzz

    Will be using these for sure, thanks psd tutus

  • joel

    thanks for the 30 second advertisement.

    • common

      someone has to pay the bills

      • Michael Owens

        …yeah, the PREMIUM members ffs.

    • Zeplix

      Oh cry me a freakin’ river.

  • Trevor

    Thank you very much, it was certainly useful and informative.

  • Bob

    Best tutorial on sharpening I have seen. Thanks

  • http://www.marjabeckers.com Marja Beckers

    Thanks very much. This is a great help to my process!

  • Jordy Ringeling

    Man you talk so incredibly slowly and totally NOT to the point.. You keep stretching your sentences while you already know what you are going to say. Not very entertaining to listen too.

    • Martin

      zzzzzzzz… totally right – very much and slow talking…

    • Lucas

      It’s usefull to me and other people don’t speak english natively. hehe :P

      Author: Thanks for the tutorial :D

  • Mr T.

    A real full HD quality is necessary to this kind of tutorial
    anyway, it was awesome :P

  • Luky

    There are some good points but you could save our time, focus on the critical steps and avoid the “I’m gonna go ahead and”. You say “gonna go ahead” 100 times in this video, save us 300 seconds.

    • http://www.buchanora.com buchanora

      Cant you guys be mature for once and just appreciate the fact that he took the time and effort to make the tutorial in the first place?

  • http://www.google.com xa6ekc

    Sharpening sharpening sharpening ….

    1. Open image
    2. Duplicate it
    3. Filter->Other-> High Pass with value 0.8 (bigger image – bigger value)
    4. Set blending to “Overlay”
    5. Enjoy!

    • Spencer

      Exactly…

    • DaveX

      Better first set blend to Overlay and then Filter –> High Pass

      ; )

  • trianglehead

    I’m gonna go ahead and say that that was an overly long tutorial. I’m also gonna go ahead and say that, although it did contain some useful information about the way sharpening works, I’m gonna go ahead and say that saying ‘I’m gonna go ahead and..’ over and over again detracted from the overall purpose of this video.

    • Edwin Cruz

      You are too funny this made my day :) thanks

  • karen

    Meh!

  • http://fotografia-slubna-piotrkow.pl/ Fotografia Piotrków

    best tutorial about sharpening I ever came across. Really, very informative and full of useful tips. Thank you.

  • glen

    One of the better produced tuts i’ve seen in a while, thanks, good job.

  • http://www.suruha-freespirit.com Su Hall

    Maybe because the guy speaks so much like I do and has to backtrack a bit, here and there, like me, too, I enjoyed this! I thought it extremely helpful! I thought it quite a good tutorial in how detailed it was. The more of an understanding I have of how PS works, the easier it is for me to be able to use the features effectively. Thank you very much!
    Su

  • http://www.mediadivinitydesign.com Adeniyi Moses Adetola

    Interesting. Nice result!!

  • John Nash

    your accent is very irritating

  • Diogo

    Keep on :P and the slow talking may be useful for non native English speakers ;)
    Great tutorial!

  • http://www.johngarghan.co.uk John Garghan

    I use a great deal of the process but you have taken it to another level, also appreciate the reasoning and explanation. thank you

  • http://adobe-photoshop-technique.blogspot.com/ arif

    awesome