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Sharpening in Camera Raw - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Inkjet Printing for Photographers
Sharpening in Camera Raw
Normally, sharpening is something that happens at the end of your workflow, but if you're shooting Raw, there is a sharpening step that you may want to take at the beginning of your workflow. As I mentioned earlier, an inherent part of digital capture is a softening of your image, there is actually a filter that sits in front of your camera's image sensor that slightly blurs your image. Now, if you're shooting JPEG, your camera will actually add a little sharpening to your image to make up for this. If you're shooting Raw though, you need to, possibly, add this yourself in Camera Raw. So I've got a Raw image here that I've already done some tonal adjustments to, I want to zoom in here to 100%--when sharpening, we always look at our image at 100% it's one of the few situations where we do need to assess things on a pixel by pixel basis--and I'm going to go over here to the Detail tab, which gives me two sets of controls, one for Sharpening and one for Noise Reduction. By default…
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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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