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Smart High Pass in the Lab mode - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
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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This time, "smart" means dynamic1m 37s
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Introducing Smart Filters6m 28s
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Traditional High Pass sharpening5m 17s
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Smart High Pass in the Lab mode7m 57s
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Sharpening a high-frequency image7m 46s
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Retroactively reducing noise7m 31s
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Which filters are Smart Filters?6m 20s
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Shadows/Highlights as a Smart Filter4m 37s
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Nesting one Smart Object inside another7m 11s
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Drawing a mask from a nested Smart Object8m 7s
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Better Shadows/Highlights inside Lab9m 16s
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Tempering saturation values in Lab6m 59s
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Filtering live, editable text9m 2s
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Enhancing filters with layer effects4m 33s
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Applying a filter multiple times4m 59s
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Creating a synthetic star field7m 7s
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Making a stucco or drywall pattern6m 28s
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Land, sea, and clouds8m 27s
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