From the course: Advanced Affinity Photo for Desktop
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Sharpening using the High Pass filter - Affinity Photo Tutorial
From the course: Advanced Affinity Photo for Desktop
Sharpening using the High Pass filter
- [Instructor] Here's an image of a fairground, with strong bright colors. When we zoom in we can see that actually the image is a little soft, and it could do with some sharpening. Here's a good way of doing it. We go to Layer, New Live Filter Layer, and we'll choose the High Pass filter. Now at first glance you may think this doesn't make any sense, everything's gone gray. As we drag the Radius slider, we increase the radius of that high pass and you can start to see some of the edges showing through in white, here. And the further we drag it, the more that comes through. We can also choose to check the Monochrome button to produce a purely black and white and gray effect. Let's leave it in color for the moment. And we'll take it down a bit. It's no use to us as it stands, but if we change the blend mode from Normal to Hard Light, then we can see through it to the layer beneath. And remember in hard light mode, mid tone gray disappears leaving us with just the highlights and the…
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