230 Making a photo razor-sharp and porcelain-smooth

In this movie, I'll show you how to sharpen a noisy photograph.…Specifically, this one here. So, even though we've managed to correct…the colors in this turtle, and they're looking just great, right?…We've got some detail problems, that become very obvious when you zoom in on…the image. And what I suspect is going on here, I'm…working with a digital camera, Panasonic Lumix, that doesn't have a RAW file format.…In many cameras, what they'll do when they write a JPEG file is they'll auto sharpen it.…And in this case, it looks like whatever auto sharpening is going on has some sort…of threshold associated with it. That is to say, some areas get sharp and…some don't, and as a result we get this pock marking effect, which is exceedingly unfortunate.…

What we're going to do, is we're going to take this guy here.…And I'll go ahead and go up to the Window menu, choose Arrange, and choose this guy…right there, match all. So, that we can compare him to the final…version of the image, which is this one right there.…