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Introducing Unsharp Mask

Introducing Unsharp Mask - Photoshop Tutorial

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Introducing Unsharp Mask

In this exercise, I'm going to introduce you to your primary sharpening tool inside of Photoshop, and that's Unsharp Mask. If you learn nothing else about how to sharpen inside the program, you want to learn how to use this one filter. I'm working inside of a document called Single-shot samples.psd. It features each of those three commands, sharpen, sharpen edges, and sharpen more applied to independent layers. I'm going to go and click on the real sharp layer, and turn it on. This layer has not been affected so far. Now I'll go up to the Filter menu, choose Sharpen, and choose Unsharp Mask, this guy right there. Now notice that if you've loaded dekeKeys, I've assigned a keyboard shortcuts to a few of the filters. Basically, the filters that I use the most often inside the program. Starting with Shift+F5, and it goes all the way to Shift+F12 for the minimum command right here. But what I want you to really note is that Unsharp Mask is the first guy to receive a keyboard shortcut…

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