Easy image sharpening in Photoshop
Here's a simple tip I picked up to quickly sharpen images in Photoshop using the High Pass Filter.
Quick sharpening
Here's an image of my new desk taken with my camera phone. You can see that the quality is not great. Really it needs to be sharper. Thankfully photoshop allows a simple way to quickly sharpen images.
It is good practice when you are changing an image to take a copy of the layer. This way if anything goes wrong you can revert to the original. So first of all I'm duplicate the layer.
Then on the layer copy apply the High Pass filter. You'll find this under Filter > Other > High Pass. Here's what we end up with - horrible!
But fear not. Change the blend mode to Overlay. You'll find this option in the Layers Panel. Apply that and the image is sharpened!
Here's the before and after
A simple tip but one I found I have already used over and over again.
Comments
What's this?
This is a journal entry written by George Ornbo, a web designer who lives and works in London, England.
Subscribe
Participating / Attending
Possibly related
Oct 19 2007
*bookmarked*
Thanks for the tip. It just helped me make some blurry Thanksgiving photos, rather less blurry. I’ll remember this one!
Nov 13 2007
Thanks admin this is use full me
Dec 14 2007
Can I ask you where you bought the keyboard on the left?? I’ve been looking for one of those!
Dec 14 2007
@Morten - it is an Apple keyboard. I’m not sure if they work on Windows machines but you can get them from the Apple store online!