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Combining High Pass with Lens Blur

Combining High Pass with Lens Blur - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced

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Combining High Pass with Lens Blur

In this exercise we're going to see how our composition holds up to a little bit of sharpening, because it's when you sharpen the image, you really get a sense of whether you got rid of all the noise or not. We're going to apply our sharpening to an independent layer, that way we can make modifications to the other layers inside the composition in order to compensate. I've gone ahead and saved my changes as Better saturation.psd found inside the 16_smooth folder, and I am going to click on the top layer in the stack shadows down, and then I will press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E, Command+Shift+Option+E on the Mac in order to create that merged version of the entire visible stack of layers, and I am going to name this new layer High Pass, because that's the filter that we're going to use in order to sharpen the image. The reason I'm using High Pass is because this image is analogous to a portrait shot. It has rounded contours; it doesn't have a lot of busy details with the exception of the…

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