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Sharpening Photos With The High Pass Filter


There are times when no matter how good your photography skills are, and how good the equipment your are using is, a photo just doesn’t turn out as sharp as you’d hoped it would. Never fear, all is not lost. With a little post-processing, a photograph can be easily sharpened up to give that perfect final touch you want.


Written on Oct 25th, 2008 by Dave Adams

Posted In: Post Processing

Sharpening Photos With The High Pass Filter

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How to use the Photoshop High Pass filter to sharpen an image rather than the standard sharpening tool.

  • Level:Beginner
  • Tools:Photoshop (CS3)
  • Time:5 Minutes


There are times when no matter how good your photography skills are, and how good the equipment your are using is, a photo just doesn’t turn out as sharp as you’d hoped it would. Never fear, all is not lost. With a little post-processing, a photograph can be easily sharpened up to give that perfect final touch you want.

Using Photoshop, there are two options to sharpening a photograph. The first is to use the standard sharpening tool that can be found under Filter > Sharpen > Smart Sharpen. While this filter can result in an acceptable final result, and there is scope for changing the filter parameters, I prefer to use a two step approach using the high pass filter and vivid light.

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