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Understanding how sharpening works - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Inkjet Printing for Photographers
Understanding how sharpening works
Every image shot with a digital camera needs to be sharpened. This is because there is a filter that sits directly in front of the camera's image sensor, and that filter cuts out some infrared light to help improve color reproduction. It also blurs your image a tiny little bit to reduce stair stepping, those little patterns that can appear on diagonal lines in your image. It's a necessary part of capturing a good digital image, and it means that sharpening is a necessary step in postproduction. Now if you are shooting JPEG, then your camera will perform some sharpening internally. And you can most likely adjust the level of sharpening from the camera's menus. After you watch the next few videos, you may find you have a different aesthetic for sharpening, and so you might want to fiddle with your JPEG sharpening settings. If you're shooting RAW, then there is no sharpening applied by the camera. This means that it is up to you to get your image properly sharpened before you print…
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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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