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The More Accurate checkbox

The More Accurate checkbox - Photoshop Tutorial

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The More Accurate checkbox

In this exercise, I'm going to demonstrate what's going out with that More Accurate check box inside the Smart Sharpen dialog box. I'm back inside the Macro butterfly.jpg image, found inside the 15_sharpen folder. I'm going to press Ctrl+Alt+F or Command+Option+F on the Mac to bring up the Smart Sharpen dialog box, complete with the last used settings here. I'll go ahead and center the butterfly's head inside the preview. So, I've got an Amount value of 500%, obviously. That is oversharpening the image. A Radius value of 4.5, with Remove set to Lens Blur. Actually, great settings, except for Amount, which is too high; otherwise, great settings if I were planning on printing this image. All right, so what I want you to notice here is that we have a single rung of highlights on the inside of this curlicue. We have a single rung of shadows on the other side of that edge; whereas if I turn on More Accurate, we're going to essentially have a double row of halos, and we're tracing around…

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