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Sharpening images

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Sharpening images

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- [Instructor] Three of the most commonly used filters in Photoshop are the Unsharp Mask, Smart Sharpen, and High Pass Filters. They're all used to help prepare our images to look their best when they're printed or viewed on screen. Let's take a look at these filters to see when we might want to use one over another. I'm going to view the image at 100% so that we can see what we're doing. I'll use Command + 1 on Mac, Control + 1 on Windows, and then use the Spacebar just to scoot this over, I want to convert the background into a smart object. So I'll right-click and choose Convert to Smart Object, and I'll use the keyboard shortcut Command + J in order to create two different duplicates. Then, I'm going to hide the duplicates and target the bottom most layer. Then, I'll choose the Filter menu, and Sharpen, and then Unsharp Mask. So sharpening is really a trick to fool our eye into thinking that the image is sharper by…

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