Comments on: Best photo sharpening tricks in Photoshop, STOP ruining your photos.

By: Colin Smith

Colin Smith — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 18:30:02 +0000

In reply to G. V. Ajay. Thanks

By: G. V. Ajay

G. V. Ajay — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 03:51:54 +0000

Thanks. Really very nice tutorial. Beautiful way of teaching.

By: Colin Smith

Colin Smith — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 21:41:59 +0000

In reply to mary orosz. Overlay blend mode?

By: Colin Smith

Colin Smith — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 21:41:33 +0000

In reply to Charles Brackett. Like all tricks, it works sometimes, and at other times it doesn't. There are more reliable ways of working, but those are more time consuming. So with hy trick, if it works, great you just saved time. If it doesn't then you do it the long way, which you would have anyway. Does that make sense?

By: Colin Smith

Colin Smith — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 21:36:58 +0000

In reply to Belinda. Blend-if in this case, hides the whites on the current layer and what's underneath will show through

By: Leo Mulder

Leo Mulder — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 15:17:33 +0000

Great tutorial. I’m going definitely for the high pass methode.

By: shawnie

shawnie — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 22:15:37 +0000

I like the SS smart sharpen effect best I think! thank you for the tutorial Colin!

By: Belinda

Belinda — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 15:14:09 +0000

As I understand it, This Layer blend if masks the highlight sharpening from the underlying layer while Underlying Layer blend if protects the the underlying layer’s highlights from the This Layer’s applied highlight sharpening?
So, when using Blend If does it make a difference whether one holds back the highlight sharpening in This Layer as opposed to the protecting the Underlying Layer from the highlight sharpening applied by this layer?
I hope this makes sense!

By: Charles Brackett

Charles Brackett — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 13:12:20 +0000

Colin: A very useful tutorial. I will have to give it a try. I have a comment about an earlier post of yours regarding neutralizing color casts using the Match Color dialog. As in all things Photoshop, it does not always work. A yellow flower turns white, or nearly so. And if it is a subject-sensitive color-cast removal, then how can one really have confidence in it without having a color reference to a neutral area, in which case, that would suffice anyway to do a neutralization without match color.

By: mary orosz

mary orosz — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 21:14:52 +0000

I can’t get the image back – it just stays gray in High Pass. What am i doing wrong?