Photoshop_User_February_2017

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Above: This photograph was taken

of a vintage racing car driven at speed

using a long focal length lens and wide

lens aperture. The side of the car and

the driver’s right arm are pin-sharp, but

there’s a fall-off in focus on the rest of

the driver’s body and his helmet.

Left: I opened the RAW image in

Camera Raw, where I selected the

Adjustment Brush. In the settings

section I applied +100 Sharpness.

With the Mask option checked at the

bottom, I painted over the areas where

I needed to add extra sharpening.

On the left you can see the unsharpened version and on the right a version

where the image was sharpened using the Adjustment Brush in Camera Raw.

SHARPENING WITH THE ADJUSTMENT BRUSH

Another option is to use the Adjustment Brush (K) in Camera

Raw to edit the RAW image directly. Among the many

settings for this tool are the Sharpness and Clarity sliders.

A positive Sharpness slider setting can be used to add

extra sharpening to an image. This increases the Amount

slider setting, and the additional sharpening effect will

be based on the same Radius, Detail, and Masking slider

settings as were applied in the Detail panel. Alternatively,

you can increase the global sharpness via the Detail panel

and use a negative Adjustment Brush Sharpness setting to

locally apply a reduced amount of sharpness to tame the

global sharpening.