Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop CS2: Industrial-Strength Production Techniques

Chapter 1. What Is Sharpening? And How Does It Work? An old saw in photography goes, quot;If you want great prints, use a tripod!quot; While it's usually delivered half-jokingly, the important grain of truth is that on...

Chapter 2. Why Do We Sharpen? And What Must We Take Into Account When We Do So? Whenever we turn photons into pixels, we lose some sharpness, because no matter how high the resolution of our capture devices, they sampl...

Chapter 3. Sharpening Strategies Building a Sharpening Workflow In the last chapter, we saw that sharpening has to take into account several different and often contradictory demands. In this chapter, I'll offer a mean...

Chapter 4. Sharpening Tools and Techniques Learning to Sharpen Thus far, this book has been fairly long on theory and short on practice. In this chapter, I'll switch focus to looking in depth at the tools Photoshop off...

Chapter 5. Putting the Tools to Work Building a Sharpening Workflow In the last chapter, I covered a large body of sharpening and noise reduction techniques. In this chapter, I'll show you how to put the techniques tog...

Chapter 6. Case Studies Sharpening from Capture to Print In this final chapter, I put into practice what I've been preaching for the past 200-odd pages. I've selected images from very different sources, at many diffe...