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1. Photoshop Elements 2 Sharpen Tool - Digital Imaging Photoshop Elements - Adobe Photoshop Software
The illustration below is the sharpen tool?s options bar. To choose a brush size and type, click on the brush thumbnail. A pop-up palette of available brushes will appear. For more information on brushes, please see the Brushes page.
There are other methods of sharpening that I recommend (such as the Unsharp Mask filter which you could use on a layer by first 'selecting' portion of it on which to run a filter). Here is another example of the sharpen tool at work.
In this Photoshop tutorial on digital photo editing, we're going to learn how to easily sharpen an image using Photoshop's High Pass filter.
This filter increases the contrast of adjoining pixels.
1. We'll take the same image again. First I'm going to set the fade amount to 100% (Recall that increasing the fade amount decreases the sharpness). Then I'm going to change the tonal width to 0%. You'll notice that everything is sharpened despite the fact that the fade amount is 100%. The reason for that is that the Tonal width controls where the sharpness DECREASES. So when you change the tonal width to 0% then the sharpness does not decrease anywhere.
