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Smart High Pass in the Lab mode

Smart High Pass in the Lab mode - Photoshop Tutorial

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Smart High Pass in the Lab mode

I've saved the results of the previous exercises as Static High Pass comp.psd. Now that we've reviewed how High Pass Sharpening works, I want to show you how to achieve the exact same effect using Smart Filters, but that requires us to jump through a couple of hoops, because we have to somehow account for the slight amount of color that's associated with High Pass. So I'm going to switch back to Smart squirrels.psd which you may recall is the result of the first exercise in the chapter. We're going to take off from here because it already has our squirrels converted to a Smart Object, we've already got the Filter Mask as well to work from. So that'll save us a couple of steps. Now, I'm going to make a duplicate of the squirrels layer by pressing Ctrl+Alt+J or Command+Option+J on the Mac and I'm going to call this layer unsharpened base, because it is going to serve as our base image. I'll click OK, I'll move it underneath squirrels like so because squirrels will have the sharpening…

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