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FILTER > SHARPEN > Unsharp mask
General sharpening settings using the Unsharp Mask. Now, be stingy with the settings, you can turn Granny's face into a Rand-McNalley Road Atlas. You’ll see three sliders, Amount, Radius, and Threshold. I’ll leave the descriptions of these to the HELP button, and just suggest a setting that’s good for general sharpening.These settting will also leave your breath minty fresh. Amount = 100 to 130% Radius = 1.0 to 1.5 Threshold = 0 Press OK With sharpening, less is more, if you over sharpen, you'll create ghastly halos around all your dark edges. So, be cool...
Page 7: Step Four: This image looks just a little tilted to me, ...you? To straighten an image, I think best results are obtained when we can define a line on the image that should be either horizontal or vertical, and let the photo editor adjust the straightness from there. In Adobe image editors, you find, hidden under the eyedropper tool, a handy little gizmo called the MEASURE TOOL. Usually, it’s for measuring distances and angles, as for text and stuff, but this little guy “talks” to the ROTATE command. Lemme show you.
The Measure Tool is hidden under the eyedropper. Find a line on the image that should be horizontal (or vertical). With the MEASURE TOOL selected click one side of the line, hold down the mouse button and move the mouse to the other side of the horizontal (or vertical) line and release the mouse button.In our example image, we've got choices, but the edge of the pool looks like it's level (or the water would be pouring out), so let's drag our measure tool across there.
Dragging the Measure tool. Drag across something exactly vertical or horizontal. The yellow highlight was added for visibility and it makes me look good because I know how to do it.. I guess we now can see that this image is quite titled. But we can fix that…. Go directly to IMAGE > Rotate Canvas > Arbitrary
The exact angle derived via the Measure tool is automatically entered. Just click OK! Wow! Notice that the exact angle for the tilt, which we determined with the MEASURE TOOL, is already inserted! Just click OK. Now, our image is straight. Just CROP off the corners, and PRESTO! We’re straightened. Cool, but then again, I don't leave the house too much....
Page 8: Stick a Fork in Us, We We're done! It's Miller time... OK, let’s do a side-by-side (below), whaddaya think? After you get a grip on these steps, they’ll take literally only a couple of minutes and greatly improve your images and increase your popularity with the opposite sex. Well, it’ll improve you images anyway.
Well, here's what we've done. Better, huh? These steps take about two minutes. I really hope this helps you improve your image, your family has been getting concerned... If you have questions, please site message me (click on my username); I’ll sure help ya' help if I can.
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