Sharpen an Image in the GIMP Application

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   You should have GIMP open and an image ready to use

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   For more information, refer to our tutorials on how to open GIMP and how to open existing documents in GIMP.

   

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   First, click "Filters" in the horizontal menu along the top of the window

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   Move the cursor to "Enhance" in the menu

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   In the expanded menu, click "Sharpen..."

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   A dialogue box will be opened where you can see a preview of your image.

   

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   If you cannot see the preview, check the "Preview" box

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   You can click and drag the preview image to move to different areas of the it

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   Alternatively, click the arrows and scrollbars on the side and underneath.

   

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   Next, you can adjust "Sharpness" by clicking and dragging the scroller underneath the preview image

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   You can also adjust the "Sharpness" value by typing a value into the text box. This effect can be used to create a hyperreal look or just to subtly sharpen your image.

   

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   Once you are satisfied with your changes, click "OK" to apply them to the image

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   Otherwise, click "Cancel"

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   The filter will not be applied.

   

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Sharpening an image without noise.

I want to sharpen a blurry image. The problem is the noise of the image will also be clearly visible. How can I sharpen it without the noise? Thank you!

Take your original image. Use either Despeckle (see our tutorial on the Descpeckle effect) or Gaussian Blur (see our tutorials on the Selective Gaussian blur and the Gaussian blur) first to remove some details from the picture (the noise) and only after that sharpen it moderately so that not much more noise is shown.

Sharpen text in a .jpg image - potentially using GIMP, but open to alternatives (but don't have Photoshop)?

Probably an impossible dream - looking at the service tag ID in an eBay photo, that seems deliberately blurred, to make this unreadable. I'm not getting much that's useful from Filter/Sharpen, on just the cutout section that includes the 2 lines of text.. Any other suggestions about what to try? Or directions from which to approach the problem? I'm not an experienced graphics person (am slowly picking up a few tips & tricks in GIMP), but I am far from capable (much less 'expert') with the pkg. I have tried: Using an online image enhancer GIMP's Sharpen/Filter. I think it was caused by: As previously, I believe that the eBay doesn't want (for no reasonable reason, TBH) potential buyers to be able to read the Service Tag ID, and be able to look up the factory-original config

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