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Sharpening in PS 6

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Posted by Kevin Batchelor on September 2, 2007 at 2:42 AM
Is there some way to sharpen specific areas of a photo in PS 6 instead of sharpening the whole photo?
Posted by Hank Pennington on September 2, 2007 at 9:56 AM
Yeah, it's pretty straight forward. Create a dublicate layer and do your sharpening on that, then erase or otherwise remove portions of the layer you don't want sharpened.
Posted by Pat Sampson on September 2, 2007 at 6:23 PM
Kevin,

You can also just lasso/magic wand the areas you want to sharpen/not sharpen and sharpen directly on the image.

Pat
Posted by Rod Barbee on September 2, 2007 at 6:51 PM
You can probably also do edge sharpening (it's been quite a while since I've use Photoshop 6) using techniques described in Bruce Fraser's "Real World Image Sharpening"