Controlled Image Sharpening with Photoshop CS2

[kasted]

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pretty cool

Yeah, I think this is a very good example of how to use PhotoShop the good way. Don't use PhotoShop just to create easy effects, but try to 'master' some skills to enhance the pictures to make them more appealing.

I think I'm gonna bookmark this one....

- Unomi -

[Jdawg246]

Very cool. I'm also looking forward to this photoshop book for web designers.

[radial]

I am familiar with this technique, but have never seen it explained so well. Very cool indeed

[acmultimedia]

Very good article and nicely put together and written. Very easy to follow!

Ver nice. Another great tip for sharpening images (especialy hi-res images) is to convert to LAB mode for sharpening - basically performing the same operations as above but on the "L" channel.

[icantsurf]

or you could just
1. duplicate layer,
2. Apply Highpass filter,
3. Layer Transparency = Soft Light
4. Get a latte while others are messing with the channels.
5. Finish latte and ask if others are ready to compare results.

[icantsurf]

very good tutorial though

[ohnnyj]

I just convert to LAB mode, select the Lightness channel and apply Unsharp Mask or Smart Sharpen. Gives pretty good results. Heard about this technique on the Photoshop TV podcast.

[letsjoy]

very cool tutorial...amazing...thanks for it.

I use PS7 and I couldn't copy my red layer in the channel's palette and it was grayed out when I went to the menu bar and tried to do it through 'Edit.'

What's up?

Nice tutorial. I have a question. Can this all be automated? Or this is just manual way to adjust photos.

While using this in PHOTSHOP CS2, I could not figure out Step 1 - everything but the last step before moving onto Step 2. Basically when I went to copy the "Highest Contrast" layer from the Channels palette to the Layers Palette, I simply got another color layer and not a grayscale layer. Can you help? I tried it every way I knew how, but then again I am a beginner. Thank you in advance!

Agree with comments one and three. Can't create a layer from the highest contrast channel, hence the rest of the artcile is useless. Shame.

[Varelse]

Oliver, you have most likely done something wrong, as the whole procedure works great.
Try again, there's no need for suggesting that the article is useless, when the reason of the failure was not on the tutorial author's side.

Varelse

In which case why do the earlier comments confirm my statement?

[Varelse]

Oliver - apparently 2 people were doing the same thing wrong

I'll try to help you. It seems that instead of clicking on the Green channel "layer" you have only turned the other channels off (by clicking the eye icon next to them).
Doing this hides the other channels, but doesn't "deactivate" them - they are still selected and used for copying the pixel information. So instead of the contents of the green channel only, you copy all the RGB image.
Just click on the "green" channel - on a thumbnail image or its name - and you have it active. Now select all and copy (ctrl+A, ctrl+S) and continue with the rest of the tutorial.

I hope this helps.

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