How much to Sharpen your images

[@tomrussell5220]

Tom Russell Great practical information, have been awaiting this one

[@deancooperphotography2896]

Glad it was helpful! thanks Tom, hope you are keeping well.

[@jackleggo9159]

Thanks Dean you made it easy for me to understand

[@deancooperphotography2896]

Glad it helped, thanks for leaving a comment Jack

[@nitch3304]

Very thorough explanation. Thanks

[@deancooperphotography2896]

You're welcome! Thanks Phil

[@philhollett7233]

Thanks Dean, great info as usual

[@deancooperphotography2896]

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks Phil

[@matglenday5428]

Great video and good to see a simpler way to sharpen photos in Ps, I basically edit in Lr but am slowly transitioning to Ps. Nice to see some simple ways from a very complex program.

[@deancooperphotography2896]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for your comment Mat

[@ianbraithwaite9563]

Thanks Dean much appreciated!

[@deancooperphotography2896]

Very welcome Ian, thanks for letting me know.

[@davepastern]

Interesting. I use high pass filter (birding photography), but only go with 0.2px (1 to 2 passes, depends on the image). using a Canon EOS 60D (18mp). I also change the blending layer to linear light...

[@deancooperphotography2896]

Hi David, I'll try that, not aware of using Linear light as the mode, I will have a play with it. Maybe with that blend mode you need a much smaller amount, cheers

[@davepastern]

@@deancooperphotography2896 I've found that it's best to do smaller px adjustments and several waves of high pass filter. I know a lot of (much better than me) birding photographers do it that way. I just got my Nisi v7 filter kit, and waiting on the funds to buy a 5D II for some landscape photography. Hopefully looking at securing a 500mm f4 IS L today, all things going well.

[@georgeel-hage6419]

Great explanation. I'm new to Photoshop, 1. why do you need a duplicate layer 2.what do you do with both layers after blending? Thank you

[@deancooperphotography2896]

By adding the layer you preserve the base layer. This way if you muck up you just delete the sharpened layer and start again. By applying it to a duplicated layer you can also drop the opacity of the layer to lessen the effect of the sharpening, plus it gives you the option of the two blending modes. Once it is done you can flatten the layers to bring it back to one layer. To do this highlight the sharpened layer and press CMD + E. Cheers Dean

[@davidmaltby2065]

Dean, just started watching your KZbin channel. Question if I may, do you complete your initial processing in Lightroom or all in photoshop? Iam an amateur and learning and are yet to even open photoshop, but are using lightroom

[@deancooperphotography2896]

Hi David, glad you enjoyed the webinar. I started using Photoshop over 20 years ago and never migrated to LR, so I do everything in Photoshop. LR is fantastic though and probably an easier learning curve. I have some youtube videos on my Photoshop editing techniques so have a look at those. I use curves adjustment layers for most of my adjustments, a very powerful tool, and easy to use, cheers Dean

[@rosannapcmedia3803]

When you are checking the affect of the sharpening you've applied Dean, do you recommend reviewing the image at 100% to check if there are haloes? Thank you

[@deancooperphotography2896]

Hi, 100% was always the go to, but with higher res screens now I find it hard to recommend an exact enlargement as it will vary on the viewers screen, hence why I said to zoom into the image. My particular screen I have at around 66%. You definately do need to zoom in though, cheers Dean