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The new and improved Sharpen tool

The new and improved Sharpen tool - Photoshop Tutorial

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The new and improved Sharpen tool

All right, as usual I've gone ahead and saved the results of my previous exercise, this time I've saved it as High Pass vs SS Adv. That is Smart Sharpen Advanced.psd, so that you can compare the distinctions for yourself and if you want to, you can go ahead and switch the High Pass layer back and forth between the various Blend modes that is Overlay, Hard Light, and Linear Light each one increasing in intensity. All right, I am going to go ahead and escape out of there and switch to the final image, which is the very first image that we looked at, Macro butterfly.jpg. So I can show you yet another way to sharpen images inside of Photoshop CS5 that does not involve a filter. This time it involves a tool. I am going to go ahead and zoom the image to 100%, move the insect's head into the Image window there. The tool in question is this guy right there, the Sharpen tool. So by default this tool looks like a little drop like so and that's the Blur tool. The Blur tool can be useful by the…

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