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Photoshop Top 40, Feature #5: The Sharpen Filters

Submitted by deke on 16 March 2010 - 12:15am.
Feature #5: The Sharpen Filters

About a dozen years ago, I engaged in the only cosmetic surgery of my life (so far!), LASIK. It corrected my far vision. But now that my aging crystalline lens is as impliable as a piece of beef jerky, I require reading glasses. And there's not a thing Photoshop can do about it.

Photoshop is similarly incapable of correcting a photograph that was captured or digitized out of focus. Consider the following examples. In the first, the image is simulated to be out of focus using Photoshop's powerful (but not Top 40) Lens Blur filter. In the second, I slather on a heaping helping of the Smart Sharpen filter with little evidence of positive transformation, not to mention lots of clipped highlights and shadows.

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Compare that to the same image as it was actually captured by Jason Stitt of the Fotolia image library. With accurate focus at its disposal, the Smart Sharpen filter is capable of rendering tactile detail, even with a tiny Radius value (the number after the slash below).

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Martini Hour 015, in Which Colleen Attempts to Represent Deke's Adoring Masses All By Herself

Submitted by colleen on 19 May 2009 - 1:08am.

This week, Deke and I solve crimes and unveil mysteries around Photoshop sharpening previews and InDesign's missing features. And as you can see, we look quite good doing so---thanks to this week's visualization, courtesy of Matti Alhoniemi's submisison from our Martini Hour Mashup contest. By the way, we really love Matti's work on this image, both for its beautiful craftsmanship and because it makes us look hot and smart without our even trying or having to rent costumes. That, my friends, is Photoshoppery put to its intended use.

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Deke (& CW) at Photoshop World

Submitted by deke on 2 September 2008 - 5:36am.

Hey gang,

What with Labor Day and the ensuing Photoshop World -- which takes place this very week in the world's capital of elegance and culture, Las Vegas -- I couldn't squeeze in one of my mostly weekly dekeStuff articles. So instead, I wanted you to be the first to know exactly what I have planned for this week, at Photoshop World.

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Picked up a Couple of Awards

Submitted by deke on 15 August 2008 - 1:36pm.

Imagine my delight when I got these puppies in the mail. The ostentatious one on the right is a Hermes Creative Award, the streamlined one on the left (coldly rejecting Hermes) is a Telly. They're both for my video series Photoshop CS3 Sharpening Images, which has picked up a total of four industry awards for my publisher, lynda.com. Look, even Bugs is excited.

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