Do I Need Sharpening or Should I Wear Eyeglasses Instead?
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Do I Need Sharpening or Should I Wear Eyeglasses Instead?

on May 4th 2011 with 27 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Adobe Photoshop
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Estimated Completion Time: 7 Minutes

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This entry is part 19 of 29 in the Photoshop Basix Session
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Are you new to Photoshop? Have you been trying to teach yourself the basics of Photoshop but have found the amount of educational material available on the net a bit overwhelming? As the world’s #1 Photoshop site, we’ve published a lot of tutorials. So many, in fact, that we understand how overwhelming our site may be to those of you who may be brand new to Photoshop. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video series demonstrating everything you will need to know to start working in Photoshop.

Photoshop Basix, by Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, Martin Perhiniak includes 25 short video tutorials, around 5 – 10 minutes in length that will teach you all the fundamentals of working with Photoshop. Today’s tutorial, Part 19: Do I Need Sharpening or Should Wear Eyeglasses Instead? will explain the Sharpen tool, High Pass, Smart Sharpen, and Smart filter mask. Let’s get started!

 
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  • David

    thx man for another great and enlightening tutorial

  • Grammar Police

    You should wear glasses so you can edit the title of the post.

    • neil bloodtitan

      Too true, Grammar Police. I’ve often pointed out basics isn’t spelled with an x. Apparently it is spelled that way in Hungary, judging by the repeated appearance of the error. Perhaps he does need sharpening.

      • http://www.blizzu.net Raine Luntta

        I’m sorry, but people as narrow minded as you are, should rethink if they want to or should be designers. Just think of how many slogans, product names, company names, advertisement texts or brief infos are out there with biiiiig grammar mistakes. But in most cases, like this one, it just feels, sounds and displays better like that.

        And ’bout the tutorial – thx. :)

      • http://psd.tutsplus.com/ Grant Friedman

        Neil, Basix is our brand for beginner level tutorials. It’s not a misspelling.

      • tvandang

        Great tutorial Grant! Thanx! Is that spelled right?(^_^)

  • http://paulroman.wordpress.com Paul Roman

    Nice tutorial for those new to Ps! :)

    Well done!

  • David Bograd

    Where are your accent from?

    • http://www.bryan-kun.deviantart.com Bryan G. C.

      @David Bograd: Probably Hungary. See his profile, just above the comments section :)

  • Trevor

    Well done again, great Tut, keep them coming please.

  • http://erwann-masson.tumblr.com Erwann Masson

    Thanks for the HDR technique !

  • Potado

    Yay for cats!

  • Nikandro

    Another great lesson Martin. We appreciate what you do a lot!

  • http://www.aphrodite1994.co.uk Mark

    Thanks for this. I’ve often came across images where this would have came in really useful.

  • humayon

    this is awesome.

  • http://brettburky.com Brett Burky

    I have gone all the way through your tutorials and must say that although I have used photoshop for years I learned a lot. Especially the adjustments. This was a great one as well. Granted I was curious if you know how to really make HDR images in photoshop. I saw what you did and you said it was a trick to do it. But really getting a full HDR I am assuming involves using the camera.

    Any resources or info would be awesome. Thanks for making this site awesome.

    • http://www.yesimadesigner.com Martin Perhiniak
      Author

      Hi Brett,

      I’m glad you found my tutorials useful. HDR photography is a really interesting topic. I would gladly make a tutorial about it. I asked the editor of the website and I am waiting for his reply.

      Thanks for the question!
      Martin

    • http://www.yesimadesigner.com Martin Perhiniak
      Author

      Your wish came true, I’ve just finished the HDR tutorial. It will be published in June :)

  • http://wonderfultime.biz Ben

    Sharpening for the web is bit more cumbersome than that. You have to go through many different steps to achieve a nicely sharpened image like Flickr does. I wrote about it on my site. But for a high resolution photograph the one used in this tutorial, two steps does it about every time. Dfine plugin for photoshop, produces outstanding results as well.

  • Bareng

    great! I have learnt something. thanks very much

  • http://www.graphiics.com Graphiics

    This is learning terminal superb

  • http://www.facebook.com/richa.gargarita richa gargarita

    thanks a million martin..I’m learning a lot from your tutorial videos..keep it coming..

  • http://2000ah.blogspot.com/ Edward

    I think that you are becoming my favorite teacher for photoshop.

  • YENNAAR

    Very nice and useful tutorial. Thanks Martin!

  • http://www.sadurdupoetry.com/ Sad Boy

    I really felt pleasure watching tutorial, because i can recognize a real expert as a tutor…Very nice sharpening techniques…

  • http://Aol.com/Chey101babe Cheyenne

    This is a nice tutorial. It helped me learn how to do the things you taught…

  • Neil Macdonald

    Thanks for these really great tuts.