Photoshop Retouching: Advanced Skin Sharpening

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Advanced Skin Sharpening

Excerpt from Advanced Skin Sharpening PDF : Adapted from “Photoshop CS2: Essential Skills” by Mark Galer and Philip Andrews
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Most if not all digital images require sharpening, even if shot on a state of the art digital megaresolution SLR with pin-sharp focusing. Most cameras or scanners can sharpen as the image is captured but the highest quality sharpening is to be found in the image editing software. Sharpening in Adobe® Photoshop® CS2 will allow you to select the precise amount of sharpening and the areas of the image that require sharpening most. If sharpening for screen it is very much a case of “what you see is what you get.” For images destined for print however, the monitor preview is just that – a preview. The actual amount of sharpening required for optimum image quality is usually a little more than looks comfortable on screen—especially when using a TFT monitor (flat panel).

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