Photoshop Elements: sharpen photos - how it works
In this practical tip, you will learn how to use Photoshop Elements to process normal images into sharp photos.
Sharp image editing with Photoshop Elements
In digital photography, you can sharpen pictures with Photoshop. However, this only works to a small extent. You cannot repair a totally blurred image in this way. At first glance, the picture must be normally sharp; a certain amount of blurring may only be recognizable when zooming in. The given values are indicative. Play around with the settings until you get the best result.
- Open the image in Photoshop Elements.
- First, mask the image out of focus. To do this, go to the "Revise"> "Unsharp Mask" menu. Increase the strength between about 80 and 150%. Reduce the radius a little, for example to 0.8 pixels. Finally, increase the threshold by two levels and confirm the setting.
- To edit the contrast, open the "Unsharp Mask" dialog box again. This time you set 20% as the strength, 90 pixels as the radius and set the threshold to 0.
- Under the menu item "Adjust lighting" and "Tone correction" you can still improve the contrast. There you now have three small controls below the diagram. You can adjust the contrast by moving it. You just have to try a little bit here, which settings you like best.
By deliberately wrong contrast or sharpness values, you can also create very nice effects. For example, a very high sharpness value makes all edges stand out more in the image.