What a differance help makes

CoDa · 2010-03-14T00:03:09+0000

This is a shot of some old farm machinery I found locally. Came across it when looking for a sample photo to try Gareth (of Cardiff fame) 'new' sharpening technique. #1 as shot #2 sharpened (does it need more? ) The photo was taken approx. 7 months after buying my K10d, very much a beginner then, probably shows. C & C as usual please

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Posted 14/03/2010 - 21:37 Link

Here are two tutorials that can help you.
USM - link
High-pass - link

Which one is the best depends one your photo, sometimes USM works better and other times high-pass so I suggest learning them both, you can even combine the two.

ps. in the tutorial he talks about how you can't use layer to control USM but you can.
Put the blending mode on Luminosity and with the opacity slider you can let the original photo come through more so effectively lowering the effect of the USM, it's not perfect though.

Stefan