You’ve got at least a couple of options here. First, there is the Sharpen Tool. But it can be quite crude to use. Another option is to duplciate your layer, apply global sharpening, and then add a black layer mask to hide all – then, using a white brush, paint back in what you want sharper.
Another option is to duplicate your layer, apply global sharpening, and then add a black layer mask to hide all – then, using a white brush, paint back in what you want sharper.
Bruce Fraser describes this plus sharpening brushes and how to make sharpening brush actions in his book "Real world Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop CS2." Too much to quote here.
You could also so it via a history brush, but Mathias’ technique is less destructive.
Could you describe how to use a ‘history’ brush please. Can’t see how it is done using unsharpen mask?
Thanks in advance
/Bowie
You would sharpen the image and click the left hand box in the history palette to designate that step as the history source.
Then go back one history step to return the image to its unsharpened state. Using the History Brush you can now "paint" the areas to be sharpened.
Cheers man. Excellent ;O)
Or you can create a duplicate layer, sharpen it, and erase from it what you don’t want sharpened. You can also lower the opacity of the layer helping to fine tune the amount of sharpening applied.
I think someone once wrote that, in Photoshop, there were six different ways to do the same thing to an image. Everyone gets to use the method THEY prefer. <mumbles about how unlike Mic…..t that is>