« Reply #25 on: Friday 26 August 05 14:24 BST (UK) »
Here is the tute for elements
Smart sharpen for Photoshop elements uses the following steps
S1 once your image is open go to image-duplicate image so that you have now have two images
S2 on second image go to image-mode-grayscale (yes to discard colour info’)
S3 Make sure both images are visible (you may need to resize each) then open the layers pallet on the grey image.
S4 hold down the control button and drag the grey layer in the pallet onto the coloured picture (holding the control ensures that the images are both aligned exactly)
S5 Check that your image now has both a colour and a gray layer, you may then close the second image (the one with only one layer)
S6 with the grey layer active go to filter stylize find edges
S7 remember the lines represent the area that you wish to sharpen so if they aren’t wide enough follow the next step. If they look wide enough jump to step 10
S8 go to filter-blur-gaussian blur. When you adjust the amount of blur notice that the more you blur the wider but more indistinct the lines become. You want a line wide enough to emphasise the edge, yet not wide enough to affect the surrounding areas.
S9 we now need to make the lines distinct again yet stay at the required width so go to layer-new adjustment layer-levels, we then use the black eye dropper on the black lines and the white eye dropper on the white areas. This may take a little fiddling to get the effect you want – if everything turns either black or white don’t panic just press your alt button and you will see the cancel button in the box will turn to reset, press this and start this step again.
S10 Now enlarge an area with one of the lines large enough to select the line with the magic wand (set at a tolerance of about 50) then double click on the little hand in your toolbox to reset the size of your pic
S11 go to select-similar and the selection should increase to include most of the lines.
S12return to the layers pallet and drag the gray layer into the rubbish bin at the bottom of the box. You should now have the coloured layer with the marching ants showing which areas you are about to sharpen.
S13 press control+h and the ants disappear, your selection is still active but we have hidden it so we can get a clearer view of the actual sharpening
S14 Go to filter-sharpen-unsharp mask and adjust until you are happy – with this method you can sometimes use levels as high as 500 HEY YOU’RE FINISHED
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