High Pass Filter (Affinity Photo)

Learn how to sharpen and enhance detail in your images non-destructively using the High Pass filter, and also discover a wavelet decomposition method for artefact-free sharpening.
Credits: Photography by James Ritson.

[@KathleenRenninger]

Extremely helpful! Thank you!

[@greengohm]

I gave up! You won, Serif! I just bought the entire suite, all at once. My willpower is non-existent! It stood no chance against the constant bombardment of so many complete, yet concise videos about each feature, of which there are so, so many.

[@thomastuorto9929]

Good deal! I only use AP lightly but want the whole shibang!

[@javierrivero7]

I congratulate you for the new tutorials where the image of the person who is explaining does not appear, since this image distracts and covers part of the program's interface. Congratulations!

[@richardmendoza4389]

Never thought you could 1) stack high pass filters without degradation; 2) use other blend modes other than overlay/softlight with any modicum of success. Now I know. Thanks for this great tip from a Pshop user who's switched over!

[@JoernR]

EXACTLY my thoughts. :)

[@artysanmobile]

Superb! This is just the ticket for my product photography. I will use this in sales photos of technical equipment to reveal selective detail. Even more exciting for me is the opportunity to enhance my technical manuals for Olympics broadcasting workflows. Not only will the overall book look better but this will likely result in a need for fewer source images, which can be a big plus. Thanks so much for posting this.

[@bgtubber]

What's the difference between the High Pass and the Unsharp Mask filter? Why would one use one instead of the other?

[@erikabeck9995]

Thank you very much, that was exactly what I wanted as a result for the macro. I can now easily adapt it to all my photos.

[@calamalabar]

very useful and very well explained !

[@vincentoliver]

Excellent tutorial, I am very impressed with other Affinity Photo tutorials presented by the same person, very clear and easy to follow. Thank you also for the special deal on the Affinity trio of applications, I am more than happy to support Affinity with my purchase.

[@TechAbhijat]

Super useful. Loving it.

[@heikaymusic]

This is amazing!

[@tonypmedia]

Thank you so much for this!!!! I've wondered what the high pass filter was. Coming from music I was like is this a compression of some sort? LOL Technically yes and you nailed the head on the wall on this and it's a great sharpening detail!!!!!! I love it now my photos blend in like the high end people

[@rafaechizen]

Very interesting!

[@FHB71]

When I work on skin, I usually use to sequential high-pass filters, where the first threshold is higher than the second, but I apply them to the image sequentially, then I deactivate the middle one in order to generate a wedge filter, this way skin - when using the appropriate two thresholds, skin can look much better. However you need to use a different layer mode of course.

[@Blackwolfskye]

Hi I used Affinity photo for ipad previously I now have a macbook is the high pass selective sharpening tool available on this one the same as 2016 video Selective sharpening

[@thewolfydragon1989]

Shame I have no money for the new one or suite even with the special deal for current customers. so I'm stuck in the affinity photo 1 I'm learning so much cool things in these videos

[@ATLJB86]

Can you explain high pass vs clarity

[@drstrange4282]

Has this filter been extracted as you announced Affinity Photo 2 for Ipad? I cant find it anywhere

[@treyusher32]

Why doesnt my high pass pop up window not look like that? I dont have a blend mode option in it.

[@garys9086]

You probably applied the filter directly, instead of using the Live Filter version: Layer > New Live Filter Layer > Sharpen > High Pass… Go back and double-check the first 20 seconds of the video, where James makes that distinction. You could easily have been distracted and missed it.

[@treyusher32]

@@garys9086 oh ill check that thanks for the help!