Smart Sharpen with Photoshop CS6 for Windows 7
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You're watching VisiHow. In this video, we're going to show you how to use Smart Sharpen on an image in Photoshop CS6 on Windows 7. As you can see, we already have an image open. You can either create a new document or open an existing one, which we can find out how to do in other videos available on this website.
Steps
- 1As we can see, our document will be in a tab along the top.
- 2Then we should check our layers on the right-hand side, and ensure that we have selected the layer we want to be working with if we have more than one layer.
- 3Then come up to "Filter" in the menu bar along the top of the screen.
- 4Find "Sharpen", which is there in alphabetical order.
- 5Then come down to "Smart Sharpen".
- 6This is where we can smart sharpen, which focuses on the contrast areas, the highlight and the shadow. There is a "Basic" and an "Advanced" option. In this demonstration, we will just cover "Basic" for now. If we want "Advanced", that's when we can specify between the shadow and highlight as well.It brings up a pop up window with a preview as well.
- 7If we're looking for "Basic" make sure it's the one chosen on the left-hand side.
- 8We can see it updates the preview.We can change the "Amount" by dragging the scroller to the right.
- 9When we drag the scroller to the left, it softens the edges.
- 10Alternatively, we can type a number in the box.
- 11"1.0" is the default setting. If we go to the left, it's less.We can also change the "Radius".
- 12This can make a dramatic difference.Of course, come to the right, and it's much more.
- 13Again, we can just type a number in.
- 14Sometimes it won't, and sometimes it will.We can also select the "Remove" scroll down menu if we want to remove one of the blurs, if that makes any difference to our image.
- 15We can go up to "Advanced" if we would like to specify between "Shadow" and "Highlights".
- 16The "Sharpen" tab is pretty much what we just did.
- 17Then we have the "Shadow" tab.
- 18Let's zoom out using the "-" on the left, below the image preview.
- 19We can also zoom in with the "+" on the right.
- 20We can also drag our image around if we want to see different areas.
- 21In this image, we have some highlight.
- 22We also have some shadow.
- 23Again, we can just type a number.If we're in the "Shadow" tab, the "Fade Amount" can be increased or decreased by moving along the scroller.
- 24There is also the "Tonal Width".
- 25Depending on our image, these might make quite a bit of a difference. For image we're using in this demonstration, we can't see much of a difference happening. It's useful to experiment anyway.Then, there is the "Radius".
- 26This will focus on sharpening within the highlights, or focusing the sharpening on the shadow instead. We can continue playing around with this until we're happy. Most likely, we're going to get a much more professional looking image if we use the "Advanced" settings.We will find the same settings under the "Highlights" tab, so adjust accordingly.
- 27Once we're happy with our preview, click "OK" to apply it to the image.
- 28As we can see, it updates the canvas image.Alternatively, we can press "Cancel" if we decide we don't want to change anything.
- 29If 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.This is a VisiHow video, and we've just shown you how to use "Smart Sharpen" on Photoshop CS6 on Windows 7.
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