Sharpening After the Fact in Photoshop
In Photoshop (or Photoshop Elements), you’d use the Unsharp Mask filter (something named “unsharp” sounds like it would make your photos blurry, but it doesn’t—the name is a holdover from traditional darkroom techniques). Go under the Filter menu, under Sharpen, and choose Unsharp Mask. In its dialog, there are three sliders for applying different sharpening parameters, but rather than going through all that technical stuff, here are five sets of settings that I’ve found work wonders:
- (1)For people: Amount 150%; Radius 1; Threshold 10.
- (2)For cityscapes or travel: Amount 65%; Radius 4; Threshold 3.
- (3)
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