How to Defog a Picture in Photoshop

If you are just getting into photography, you'll often hear people talk about "defogging" their pictures. This can be confusing at first but it is actually really easy. Digital cameras tend to make your photos look fuzzy, or foggy, like they have a film over them. You can easily get rid of this with the unsharp mask filter, but remember that this is different than sharpening! The unsharp mask settings increase the contrast of the photo in a way that gets rid of that foggy look. You should defog your pictures before you do any other editing and then sharpen for print at the end of your editing.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Photoshop

1. Open the photo you want to defog in Photoshop.

2. Go to filter menu in the taskbar at the top of the screen. Then go to sharpen>unsharp mask.

3. There will be three sliders, amount, radius, and threshold. For a defog you want the radius to be bigger than the amount. Most people use these values:
   Ammount: 20
   Radius: 60
   Threshold: 0

4. Click "okay" to set your filter. And you are done! Now you can finish editing your photo.

Resources

• Buy Photoshop Elements
• Buy Photoshop CS4

[sonni57]

on 5/6/2009 Thanks for the photoshop tips on defogging a picture.