How to Sharpen a Picture With Photoshop

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"Adobe Photoshop is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems, Incorporated. I am in no way affiliated with Adobe. Hi, I'm Steve Anthony. I'm a photographer and digital retouching artist here in New York City. In this clip we're going to talk about how to sharpen the picture in Photoshop. The simplest way to sharpen a picture in Photoshop, you open the picture that needs to be sharpened, obviously, and then go into your Filter fly-out and select Sharpen > Unsharp Mask. Now, this is this is the most basic way of sharpening a picture, and we'll disable and re-enable the Preview so you can see the effect on the image on the screen. As you can see, it just it definitely enhances the detail of the image. Now, there are extremes that some people are uncomfortable with. You just use the sliders and find out where your level of satisfaction is when it comes to sharpening. And you can select and deselect the Preview button to see whether or not you like what you are seeing. Now, another way of sharpening in the newer versions of Photoshop is also in the Sharpen menu, it's called Smart Sharpen, and some people prefer this method. There are different types of sharpening; you can remove Gaussian blur from the image, or lens blur, or even motion blur from the image. Now, depending on what you want your finished picture to look like you may find that these settings work better than Unsharp Mask. As with anything and everything else, it's a matter of personal taste. You will discover what works best for you. So I would certainly recommend that you try both Unsharp Mask and Smart Sharpen, because they both are quite different but they do handle essentially the same task. That's basically it. And again, try different settings until you find a setting that works best for you is the best way to do that. I'm Steve Anthony, and this has been How to Sharpen a Picture Using Photoshop."