Improving Your Images Step 7: Sharpenning the Image

We are finally here. After adjusting the WB, tweaking the colour space, removing noise and dead pixels, and adding pop and a vignette, we are ready to sharpen the image.

Sharpening is always needed because an image is a digital composition and so lines will rarely be sharp.

There are 1001 ways to sharpen an image. I will show you one that is quick and painless.

step 1: double click on the zoom button to increase zoom to 100%
step 2: with the background layer selected, go to "filters", select the "sharpen" option then locate the "unsharp mask" option.
Step 3: a dialogue box opens, set the amount to around 200, the radius to around 1.5 (but adjust to suit your needs) and the threshold to around 20% (the higher the value the softer the image). Experiment with these setting to see what works for your image.


that is it, we are done. All that is left now is to save the image as a TIFF.


We started with this image:

and finished up with this image:

What  do you think of the result? Id love to hear your thoughts.

have fun! ☺

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