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High Pass Sharpen in Photoshop

admin — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:27:02 +0000

High pass sharpen is one of many sharpen techniques in Photoshop. Pros of the high pass sharpen is flexibility. With high pass sharpen, you can adjust sharpness easily and you can use layer mask to sharpen only areas you want. For more understanding, please follow the step-by-step instruction below.

1. Open your image.

2. Drag “Background layer” over the new layer icon in order to duplicate it.

3. You will get the “Background copy”

4. Go to Filter>Other>High Pass

5. Adjust radius and the acceptable level of radius is around 1-5. You just only slide the bar and see the preview. If you use too high radius, your image will look unreal. For this case, I use the radius of 4.

6. Your image will look like this.

7. Go to the layer pallet and change mode to overlay.

8. This is the original image.

9. After changing to overlay mode, the photo look sharper.

10. Not only overlay mode, there are several mode that you may use to adjust sharpness of photos.

11. Change to “soft light” = soften image

12. Change to “hard light” = sharpen image

13. Change to “vivid light” = sharpen image

14. By reducing the Opacity, you can reduce level of sharpness. Sharpen must be applied to each image carefully. If sharpen is used too much, the photo may not look like the real one. It may look like the computer graphic photo instead.

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Free 6000+ Photoshop Gradient

admin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:28:07 +0000

I just got the nice Photoshop gradient sets from my friend. There are 6,000 + nice Photoshop gradients that you can download load into your Photoshop and ready to use.

I hope you will love it.

Download 6,000 + nice Photoshop gradients HERE!!

If you don’t know how to load Photosthop gradient, please read this article,How To Load Photoshop Gradient.

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How To Load Photoshop Gradient

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:21:56 +0000

Photoshop Gradient is one of excellent Photoshop tool that I frequently used. Today, I would like to demonstrate you how to load Photoshop gradient.

1. Select “Gradient Tool” from tool pallet.

2. You will see the “Gradient Tool” property (see an image below). Click small triangle 1 and 2 respectively in order to select “Load Gradient”.

3. Select your gradient file and click load

4. Your gradient will be appeared in the gradient pallet.

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How To Load Photoshop Actions

admin — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:21:42 +0000

Learn how to load Photoshop Action within few steps.

1. Go to Action Pallet, select Photoshop Action and choose “Load Actions”

2. Choose Photoshop Action and press “Load” . For this example, I select the Photoshop action called Cross Process

3. The Photoshop Action will be loaded into the action pallet.

4. Then you just open your photo and play this Photoshop action.

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How to Load Photoshop Brush

admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:24:25 +0000

You just simply follow few steps in order to load Photoshop Brush into your brush pallet.

1. Select Tool Pallet and select Brush

2. You will see the Brush Property on top.

A. Click to show Brush

B. Select Load Brush

3. Select brush file whose extension is “.abr”. For this example, I select snow_brushes_by_Aramisdream.abr and then click OK

4. Scroll down and you will see your new brush set loaded into brush pallet. For this tutorial, you will see my new snowflake brush set.