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Monday, July 11th
Alternative to an Edge Mask - or
Sharpening Noisy Images in Photoshop
category: digital photography and image editing
If your Unsharp Mask settings are bringing out grain or compression artifacts, and too much Threshold is giving your image rough transitions between the sharpened and unsharpened areas, then you may need an edge mask, but try this first.
Make a copy of the layer that needs sharpening, set the blend mode of the new layer to soft light, and set the view to 100 percent. In the Filter drop-down, choose Other, and then High Pass. Set the Radius slider at about 0.5 and bump it up slowly with the arrow key until the image looks good. As with USM, higher resolutions require a higher Radius setting.
He said on 07.11.05 @ 03:49 PM CST
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