Improving sky details and edge sharpening

…In this movie, we will focus in on improving sky…detail and edge sharpening when working with the detail panel controls.…We'll be working with two different images, starting off with this…photograph, and then we'll wrap up our conversation with this image here.…And while these images appear differently, we'll apply…similar settings in order to accomplish great results.…Let's start off with this photograph.…It's a picture of a tree that I captured way up…in the Eastern Sierra Mountains in California in the winter time.…

And if we click on the image in order to zoom in on it, one of the…things that we'll start to notice is that the…edges in this photograph are a little bit soft.…What I want to do is add some definition or…strength, or I want to sharpen and define those edges.…I also notice that there's a lot of luminance noise in…the sky, and this is a typical problem with digital capture.…If noise is going to show up, it often shows up in the sky area of a picture.…Let me zoom in on that so you can see it better.…