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Smart Sharpen Video in Photoshop CS6 for Windows 7

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You're watching VisiHow. In this video, we're going to show you how to "Smart Sharpen" a video clip in Photoshop CS6 on Windows 7. As you can see, we've already imported video into Photoshop. It's showing up as "Layers" on the right-hand side, and then as clips in the timeline at the bottom.

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On the layer, let's make sure we've selected and turned it into a smart object, which is what we need to do when we're applying a filter to video
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Basically, it just flattens the video, so it looks like just one frame rather than lots of little frames.

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Select that layer again on the timeline
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Then, find "Filter" in the menu at the top of the screen
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Go down to "Sharpen"
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Then, go to "Smart Sharpen" in the sub-menu, which will bring up a new box
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Now, we are in the "Smart Sharpen" box
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The really good thing about "Smart Sharpen" is that it not only allows us to sharpen, but we can also specify in the shadow and the highlight areas.

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If we're only on the "Basic" settings, then we only get the standard "Sharpen" option
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In "Advanced", which we recommend, we have the "Shadow" and "Highlight" as well
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In the "Sharpen" tab, we can change the "Amount" first of all by clicking and dragging the scroller from left to right
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Alternatively, we can just change the number by typing in the box on the right-hand side
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We can do the same with "Radius"
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We can experiment really, depending on what it is we're working with.
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We can go to "Remove" to remove one of our blurs
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The standard is "Gaussian Blur", but there's also "Lens Blur" and "Motion Blur". Maybe if we're filming something from a car, and we want to remove "Motion Blur", then we should select "Motion Blur". That depends on our preferences as well.
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Then we can go to the "Shadow" tab, and again, we toggle in the same way
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Of course, it depends what we're working with.
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Let's look at more of a shadow area
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We can see that it can have quite a professional finish if we're careful with our editing at this point. We can also just select and type in the boxes as well.
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Finally, let's go to our "Highlight" tab
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We can select our "Fade Amount", "Tonal Width" and "Radius". Again, it just depends on what preferences we like.
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Overall, we can zoom out with the "-" located beneath the image preview
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Alternatively, we can zoom in with the "+"
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We can also just drag and move the image around to check that it looks sort of uniform
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Then, we can just press "OK" in the upper right of the box to apply that to our canvas
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We can see that now it's appearing as it's own sub-layer in the "Layers" panel on the right-hand side, which we are welcome to hide by clicking on the eye if we would like to as well
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This is a VisiHow video, and we've just shown you how to apply a "Smart Sharpen" effect to a video clip in Photoshop CS6 on Windows 7
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If you have any questions or comments, feel free to add them to the section below, and we'll do our best to get back to you.
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