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Enhancing clarity with the High Pass filter

Enhancing clarity with the High Pass filter - Photoshop Tutorial

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Enhancing clarity with the High Pass filter

- In this movie, we're going to enhance the clarity, that is to say, the degree of edge contrast using a filter known as High Pass and then we'll clean up some of the noise using the Reduce Noise filter. Now, because we're working with filters, we naturally want to be able to apply them as nondestructive, editable, Smart Filters so we need to convert the original image down here at the bottom of the Layers panel to a smart object so if you're working along with me, go ahead and select that moon jelly layer, and then armed with the rectangular marquee tool, which you can get by pressing the M key, go ahead and right click inside the image window and choose Convert to Smart Object. And that will place the image into a special, protective container so we can't harm it for good. And notice, by the way, that Photoshop marks the smart object with a little page icon in the lower right corner of the thumbnail. And if you want big thumbnails like I have, incidentally, here inside the Layers…

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