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Sharpening with Software
If the camera allows you to shoot in RAW, the in-camera sharpening can be undone via software afterwards on your computer.

 


Sharpen Your Photos For Display
Most of us upload our pictures or print them the way they were captured by our digital cameras.

Sharpness at the limits of the "Depth of Field" based on a diffraction model
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Sharpening Techniques
A strong use of Radius in Unsharp Mask may help your nature images
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Sharpening Masks
Figure 1: One Pass Sharpening Problems
Up until now, we have basically prepared some type of sharpening and applied it to the entire image. This can cause problems.

Sharpness
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Sharpening your photos using Unsharp Mask
More than you ever wanted to know about sharpening your photographs in Photoshop
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Sharpen edges
An image editor technique to enhance the edge of an object.
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Sharpening with the Unsharp Mask filter
The unsharp mask filter in Photoshop can be used to save certain blurred pictures.

Sharpening the picture is meant to correct for the guesswork that the camera had to do. The photo-editing program analyzes the borders between colors, and makes them stand out again.

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Sharpness, resolution, and accutance
What does USM do?
What to watch out for: haloes, noise, and aliasing ...

Sharpen your shots with Photoshop
Reveal a shot's finer detail using a variety of sharpening tools and techniques
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Sharpening & Softening
In conventional photography an image is either sharp or unsharp. There is not much that can be done about that.

Sharp Photos
By Chuck DeLaney, Dean, NYI
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Sharpening a Fine-detailed Subject
Figure 3 shows an example of a photograph that contains a lot of fine-edge detail, where the Sharpening sliders in the Detail panel needed be taken to extremes.

Unsharp mask
Techniques Glossary Unsharp mask
A filter that makes a picture appear sharper by increasing edge contrast. Its usually supplied with scanners and comes with some image-editing programs such as Photoshop.

2b) Unsharp Mask low Radius settings
What are the ideal settings for Photoshop's Unsharp Mask filter? There are no ideal settings that will accommodate all images-or image makers.

Smart Sharpening
Even though Photoshop is already an extremely impressive piece of software, Adobe keeps hard at work looking for ways to make it even better. The newly released Photoshop CS2 is their latest giant step forward on that quest.

Even Sharper images
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Sharpening is a simple, effective way of increasing the quality of a picture using two specific parameters, resolution and acutance. Resolution refers to the camera and how well it can record fine detail. Acutance refers to line edge sharpness.

Sharpness Isn't Everything
Shallow depth of field can focus attention on a foreground subject by making the background less sharp.

Taking Sharp Photos
Left Image: Digital SLR, Tamron 70-210mm f-2.8 lens, 1/250 sec at f-2.8, Bogen tripod and ball head. Spot meter.

Remember sharp photographs depend on a stable camera. To increase the possibility of sharp photographs, use a low ISO and good timing when appropriate. If you need to use a higher ISO depend on a tripod and your middle aperture and zoom settings.

Perfectly sharp images are what many photographers want and strive for. A blurry shot will look mediocre compared to one that is sharp, no matter how spectacular the subject matter is. Fret not.

DIGITAL TOOLBOX: SHARP BLUR
Here's how to easily turn a humdrum image into a dreamy, romantic photo.
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-When the lens is focused at 20 feet and set at f/22, the depth of field ranges from about 10 feet to infinity in sharp focus.

Default settings with NO sharpening were used for all RAW conversions.

Beginner Photography-Steady Your Camera for Sharper Pictures
Beginner photography is often easy to recognize because the images are blurry.

Presently, however, a new technique for improved sharpening is introduced which can be used with virtually any image sharpening technique of the user's choice.

However, sharpening them in photo editing software can be tricky using conventional methods. If you use the "sharpen" filter you often get a lot of added noise and an artificial look.

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Shooting in continuous mode for sharpness
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Sharpening Images with Photoshop
Usually, the first thing I do after converting a RAW file is to sharpen my image. Due to the way your cameras sensor works, a certain amount of blur is always introduced (see.

Sharpness: Readings at 10 to 40 (or higher) lp/mm represent the sharpness-ability of a lens. Readings taken at 40 lp/mm indicate how good a lens can transmit very fine structures (e.g. hairs).

Sharpening
A post production process that increases contrast and adds apparent clarity or sharpness to a digital image. The most common method is called unsharp masking (USM).
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Sharpen the image

If your image is somewhat soft, and this often happens during scanning, it can be made sharper with the unsharp mask.

Sharp Strategies
Telephoto lenses magnify distant objects so they seem closer than they really are. At the same time, however, the movement of the lens as you hand hold it is magnified.

Sharpening - Sharpening essentially enhances the edges of an object in a digital image to make them look sharper.
Shutter - This is the mechanism on the camera that can open and close to introduce light to the image sensor and/or film.

Sharpness
Reflected Light is the light that is being reflected off of an object, and represents a softer and different level of intensity than the light that is hitting a subject.
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Sharpening in Lightroom 3
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Sharp subject with blurred background
To accomplish this, you must make sure you are focused on your subject then increase exposure by opening the aperture as far as you can (lowering the f-stop).

Sharpening
Sharpening is an algorithm designed to enhance edge detail.
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Sharpness - The clarity of detail in a photo.
Shutter speed - The camera's shutter speed is a measurement of how long its shutter remains open as the picture is taken. The slower the shutter speed, the longer the exposure time.

Sharpness - The clarity of detail in a photo.
Shutter - The device in the camera that opens and closes to let light from the scene strike the image sensor and expose the image.

Sharpness
A term used to describe the ability of a lens to render fine detail clearly; dependent on the contrast and resolution of a lens and varies with the f/stop; in general, a lens is sharpest at the middle apertures.

Sharp. Describes an image or part of an image that shows crisp, precise texture and detail. The opposite of blurred or soft.

Sharpening - Increasing the apparent sharpness of an image by increasing the contrast between the adjacent tones or colors.
Smoothing - To blur the boundaries between tones of an image, usually to reduce a rough or jagged appearance.

Sharpness - The clarity of detail in a photo.
Shutter lag - There is often a delay between pressing the button and the camera taking the photo in digital cameras. This is called 'shutter lag'.

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sharpen:
A computer graphics process that enhances the contrast on the edges of light and dark shapes to make images appear more in focus.
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Sharpening
The process of increasing (or emphasizing) contrast around the edges of details (comprised of pixels) in an image.

sharpening
A software method of increasing the definition of edges in an image by increasing the contrast of the image.

Sharpening. Increasing the apparent sharpness of an image by boosting the contrast between adjacent pixels that form an edge.
Sheet film. Film supplied as individual sheets, usually 10 or 25 to a box.

Sharp (image) see Definition
Sharp (shadows)
Shadows that have a hard, clean edge. Tip: The farther away subjects, Snoots, and Flags are from a Light, and the closer they are to the background, the sharper their shadows will be.

Sharpness range
Area in which the fixfocus objectiv focuses. See also depth of field
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SHARPNESS - An image's degree of clarity in terms of focus and contrast.
SHEET FILM - Piece of film sized for one exposure in a view camera.

Sharpening
Digital images are inherently soft due to the nature of pixels and how we perceive the images they collectively produce.

Unsharp Masking
A process by which the apparent detail of an image is increased; generally accomplished by the input scanner or through computer manipulation.

Unsharp Masking (Unsharp Mask). The process by which the apparent detail and sharpness of an image is increased. Generally accomplished by the input scanner or through computer manipulation using editing software.

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