Now, there are a number of different methods for sharpening in Photoshop, but we’ll start with the most popular method, which has been in Photoshop since the very start in version 1.0 (nearly 32 years ago), and that’s the: THE UNSHARP MASK FILTERĭon’t let the name throw you it doesn’t make your images blurry (the name is a holdover from a traditional darkroom technique). You sidestep all of that when you do your sharpening in Photoshop you can see everything right onscreen every step of the way, which is why, even though Lightroom has good-quality sharpening, I still prefer to do my sharpening in Photoshop.īy the way, in case you’re wondering how often I apply sharpening to my images, that’s easy: every image of mine gets sharpened. It does its sharpening behind the scenes, so you have no idea if the amount you’re choosing is right until the file is generated and the sharpening is already applied. Plus, Lightroom’s Output Sharpening is kind of a blind situation: There’s no preview whatsoever. At that size, it’s hard to see what it’s going to look like when you take that 6,000 pixel-wide image and resize it down to 1,080 pixels for posting on Instagram (or sharing anywhere online).
Seeing your sharpening at these different magnifications is incredibly helpful because, in Lightroom, you can really only see the effects of sharpening when you view the image at 100%. These filters have a big advantage over the sharpening in Lightroom, which is that you can clearly see the effects of the sharpening onscreen at different magnifications, like 25%, 50%, 67%, and so on. They do just what they sound like they’d do: they sharpen your photo. We’re going to start with one of the most useful sets of filters in all of Photoshop, and that’s the Sharpen filters. There are a ton of filters in Photoshop that do all sorts of things, but, in reality, there is only a handful that we use on any kind of regular basis, so we’re going to focus on those here in this column.
It’s time to move on to a new area of Photoshop, and it’s an awesome area: filters.
I’m in Prague today, leading a travel photography workshop, so I thought I’d do an installment of Photoshop for Lightroom Users column to kick off this week (since I won’t be posting much until next week, though Rob Sylvan will still be here in my steed).
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