Sharpen Your Photos

Before going future, let us know a little bit about Sharpening. Sharpening is enhancing the edges of an image. This edge enhancement technique is called unsharp masking and involves isolating the edges in an image, amplifying them, and then adding them back into the image.

There are some picture that has "soft" image. So, you need to sharp it so that, the photo will appeared more clear than the original.

Now let begin our tutorial about Sharpening using USM (Un-Sharp Mask). First, choose you photo that has "soft" image. I use my photo.

Sony DSC-S650 Cyber-shot® digital camera
2.0" LCD screen, 7.2 megapixel resolution, 3X optical zoom lens, ISO 1000

This is a picture that I capture when I go to Kelantan. This place is called Pasar Siti Khatijah, the famous market in Kelantan.

Make a copy for that picture and rename it as Original.
- Right Click to the background picture> Click Duplicate Layer.


Now Click Filter> Sharpen> UnSharp Mask.
I use Amount 200%, Radius 1.2 pixel, Threshold 4 pixel. Click OK.



To advance the effect of photo, you can darken and lighten the photo.

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