Unsharp Mask (Affinity Photo)

Sharpen images and enhance detail with the Unsharp Mask filter. This video also shows you how to apply it non-destructively as a live filter layer.
Credits: Photography by James Ritson.

[@robertbailey6132]

Finally I understand how to make effective use of the Unsharp Mask--thank you!

[@reinhardgrossmann8054]

Thank you and congratulations! Your rhetoric is at its best! Straight, clear, using pauses at the correct moments (as given by natural periods or by punctuation marks), the mouse arrow goes only and precisely where it should go to. To me these are perfect presentations in any aspects - perfect models which should be adopted by each and every presenter!

[@cevxj]

[@javiervvgarcia9650]

Great value of these tutorials is not only the explanation about getting some results but the thecnical reason behind those adjustments!!! Well done!

[@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!

[@JDFloyd]

I bought Affinity Photo earlier this year principally to use on my iPad Pro. I have always found PhotoShop to be complicated, and since I do not use it daily, I forget what I learn with it quickly. However, Affinity Photo seems just so intuitive to use. Thanks!

[@alexandrealmeida4360]

Now that version 2 is out will the book be updated?

[@harvardkarbodie]

He's done a step in another video that he's doing here and I simply don't understand it. He makes a selection, but then removes the selection (ctrl-d) before continuing with working ON that selection. (At 2:56) Is this something unique to Affinity? In Photoshop, if I make a selection and then make it go away using Ctrl-d, it's gone and anything I do on the image will NOT be within that selection. But the way I'm understanding how this works in Affinity is that if you make a selection and remove it, it's as if there is a memory of the selection you've just removed and it remains in effect. It appears that just by making a selection it automatically creates a mask. Is that correct? If it's something else I'm just not understanding. Can anyone offer an explanation?

[@JamesRitson]

Hi, the reason I deselect is to remove the marquee selection because its purpose has been fulfilled: it has been used to create a mask for the live Unsharp Mask filter (in the video I explain this I believe). Hope that helps!

[@harvardkarbodie]

@@JamesRitson I will have to watch this again. You must have made the mask very quickly or else I got distracted! Thank you. Your tutorials are enormously helpful.

[@cevxj]

@@harvardkarbodie it's automatically made when you click on a filter or adjustment, while having a selection marquee