Edge Sharpening Secrets
Matt shares one of his favorite techniques for sharpening landscape photos, using an edge mask created from the Find Edges filter.
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Related Tags: edge masks, find edges filter, sharpening
walter
June 4, 2011 at 7:39 am
what is the demo file? I have the magazine so I don’t a pdf file.
Rick LePage
June 5, 2011 at 3:36 pm
Sorry, Walter – I added the link above, but here it is:
http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/members/download-edge-sharpening-secrets/
Rick
Brian
June 15, 2011 at 5:51 pm
Great idea and works really well.
Aaron
June 28, 2011 at 1:36 pm
So I just read your technique and went into PSE immediately to test various sharpening approaches.
I had previously used Filter>options>high pass with blend mode of hard light. I then read that the unsharp mask approach was best. And recently read that i should use the sharpen function. Your approach reminded me of the cutoff slider in unsharp mask. I did my test and preferred the sharpen and high-pass filter (i was surprised)
So, could you list the top sharpening approaches and if there is a reason to select it (eg works better in XYZ situation) that would be really helpful.
Steven
December 16, 2011 at 4:54 pm
I too would like the answer to Aaron’s question posted on June 28, i.e., which tool is best for various situations…..thanks
George
December 24, 2011 at 8:50 pm
Matt and Scott’s The Photoshop Elements 7 Book has a chapter entitled “Sharp Dressed Man” that covers in detail when to use the various types of sharpening.
I’m assuming that the editions which cover 8, 9 and 10 have similar chapters, but I am not sure of that.