Sharpening Due 3/2 The Sharpen tool allows you to sharpen the detail in your photo. However, this tool will NOT make an unfocused photo focused! It can only create a sharper image of detail already found in the photo. So this is a great feature to use on a photo that may seem a little soft (just a tiny bit out of focus...barely noticeable) or to sharpen a photo that has a lot of detail- like your bubbles and water photos.
Requirements: 1. Watch the tutorial first below. 2. Then choose a photo that you would like to sharpenfrom the pictures taken of your water with color or bubbles . 3. Make any needed adjustments (levels, crop, etc...) 4. Use the Sharpen feature and save a copy. Post both the original and the edited version to your webpage titled "Sharpening" and label each photo. TIP! If you only want to sharpen part of your photo- for example: I have a photo with shallow depth of field of a bubble and I want the grassy background to stay out of focus and only want my bubble to get sharpened, then you can use the quick selection tool over the bubble first. Then choose the sharpen filter. It will only apply your changes to the selected area! (This can be done with any feature in Photoshop by the way...) Video- www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVBv_eTtxXA additional video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVGhRsgiDvQ
General Sharpening Steps: 1. Make a copy of the background copy 2. Make any other adjustments you plan to make (levels, crop, etc...) 3. Go to Filters, Sharpen, Unsharp Mask 4. Put your Threshold to 0 5. The "Amount" is usually somewhere between 100-200; the Radius is usually around 2-7% 6. Click the Preview button off and on to look at your photo and see what the changes look like (the box is a zoomed in version of the photo and is difficult to see changes) TIP! If you only want to sharpen part of your photo- for example: I have a photo with shallow depth of field of a bubble and I want the grassy background to stay out of focus and only want my bubble to get sharpened, then you can use the quick selection tool over the bubble first. Then choose the sharpen filter. It will only apply your changes to the selected area! (This can be done with any feature in Photoshop by the way...)