Active Rain PhotoBlogger - Sharpen Your Photos for Your Blog

 Sharpening Photos Makes a Difference!

Digital cameras, whether it is a point and shoot, or a DSLR produce inherently 'soft' photos. Sharpening your photos can make a big difference.

When we use a resizing program to make our photos smaller for our blogs, the problem of 'softness' increases.

Here are a couple examples - notice how much more detail is visible:

 

Unsharpened                                                                      Photoshop High Pass Filter at 2.0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unsharpened

The photo below was sharpened using FocusFixer V2 at 1.7, threshold at 60%. Look at the difference in this wolf's eyes.

Just about any photo editing program will offer a sharpening tool. And there are many ways to do it - ask 10 people what method they use, and you might expect to get 10 different answers! How much sharpening to use, and which sharpening tool to use, are all a matter of taste. I really like FocusFixer. 

If you have a favorite sharpening method or software, would you share it with us?

 

For a tutorial on using the high pass filter in Photoshop- click here

Then, make an action for it so it can be done in seconds anytime you need it! 

 

 

'Soft', dreamy shots can be fun too.  Just depends on the effect you want :)

 

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Photos taken by Debi Boucher, DBoucher Photography, all rights reserved, may not be reproduced without express written permission.