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Applying aggressive sharpening - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Inkjet Printing for Photographers
Applying aggressive sharpening
Let's take a look at a more difficult sharpening situation here. This is a promotional picture I took for a Improvisational Theater Company in San Francisco, Bay Area Theatresports. We were working on a fairly dark stage, and I wasn't paying good enough attention, I'll admit it. And I was working with a somewhat fast lens, not great, but the camera opened up wide enough that my Depth of Field was shallow enough that the two people in the background went out of focus. So I need to sharpen them and they're full on out of focus. So I'm not going to get a great level of detail, but I can make them look a little bit better. But they're going to need very different sharpening settings, than the man in the middle. Now, one thing to bear in mind when you're sharpening is to keep an idea on what your final printed output is going out to be. I'm not going to worry about regaining too much fine details, say, in his hair or his eyelashes, because this is an image that's going to be printed…
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Understanding how sharpening works3m 18s
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Sharpening in JPEG mode1m 26s
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Exploring sharpening workflows3m 47s
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Sharpening in Camera Raw6m 17s
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Looking at noise reduction1m 46s
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Sharpening output with Smart Sharpen11m 52s
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Understanding selective sharpening4m 25s
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Sharpening through an edge mask7m 17s
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Reviewing high-pass sharpening4m 30s
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Applying aggressive sharpening8m 53s
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Exploring advanced sharpening techniques9m 7s
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Exploring the Print dialog11m 35s
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Proofing at smaller sizes3m 3s
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