Increase Blur to Sharpen Better? - Photoshop Trick

Discover a Unique Technique to Sharpen an Image by Blurring it in Photoshop! In this lesson, learn how to sharpen much better in many scenarios than the traditional method by using the combination of special blend modes and Gaussian Blur.

We will also compare and discuss the differences between this method and the High Pass method to see what's better in a given situation. Also, we will learn how to use a free action to make the sharpening & detailing process much faster and easier.

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[drew]

its 2 am, im lonely, im sad, and im scrolling through my subscriptions and find this video, I subscribed 3 years ago when I wanted to learn more about photoshop, and the first line you say is ""i want to remind you each moment is a new moment and that you can turn it around." and thats exactly what I needed to hear right now, even though this is a photoshop tutorial... thank you <3

[joshuagharis]

You've helped my business so much. I was a complete PS novice and you taught me a lot. I was overwhelmed 😪, and now I can navigate edits fluently. Thanks Unmesh

[Paul-iqpw]

You did it again. Make me stand up from the couch and run over to my PC to try this trick and be completely amazed about it. Do these type of videos ten times a day and I will start calling you my personal trainer because of all the physical exercise I will get from walking between my couch and computer. Thank you as always.

[TheWooloomoolloo]

This is probably the first time I leave a comment here. I'd like to thank you for what you've been doing all these years to spread knowledge. I mainly do street photography and other types of photos on the smartphone, just to train my eye for spotting opportunities and to improve composition skills, and of course I rushed to try out this sharpening method right away this evening. It really works. Thank you, good sir, and God bless you, too!

[daviday]

This is such a fantastic channel. This particular lesson struck a chord with me after coming home from a vacation with a few pictures I thought were unusable until I used these methods. Thank you for your constant stream of inspiration! You're genuinely my favorite PS teacher on YouTube by far!

[s_v_]

Bro this is not just one video of yours I’m talking about but honestly, you are an amazing teacher, and the way you do these tutorials it’s just soooo helpful and it’s like you were made for this purpose, the way you teach it’s just a blessing to learn from you, please don’t change and stay same, god bless you brother, please keep us teaching like this 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[JeffStrawBranding]

I learn so, so, so much from you. even your little "aside" moments are packed full of useful techniques. For instance, the history snapshot - always wondered if that was possible. And your 10 seconds of motivation on this video - reminding me that I can turn a day around at any moment... just beautiful. Thank you for everything and have a wonderful day.

[jenniferm.]

I can’t even begin to describe how helpful this trick is. I do a lot of photo editing for my clients and I never realized this type of sharpening was an option! It works so well! Thank you! ❤

[brianarsenault]

There are others besides myself who get excited when we see a new idea such as this. Thank you Unmesh, your support is a guiding light to a community of followers.

[Kuriie]

Clear, concise and informative. I appreciate you going through what all the effects do and how they work with each other.

[mdthor]

My mom was a photographer when I was growing up, back in the days before photoshop. I've always done photography as a hobby, a passion project. I wanted to update my skills so that I could take advantage of the technology available today vs. What was available when I first learned how to properly use a camera. I picked up the PS 2020 Class In A Book, and while I did learn a lot, nothing has compared to the videos you put out. You break down not only what to do to get the desired results, but why you use each technique and tool and why those techniques work together for the effect in one instance, but may not work in another. PS's book takes the "Do it this way because we said so" approach. They should bring you on to consult for their company.

[MrRuelP]

Thank you. I tested the action with 2.5 Gaussian blur (from the default 3) and I like the result. Subtle but the before and after comparison shows a very good improvement.

[brechtverborgh]

If you convert to greyscale before you use high pass, you loose a lot of detail.-> if two different colors next to eachother have the same colorvalue (same greyvalue when converted), you loose their contrast/edge -> which causes it to not be picked up by the high pass filter.

[giovannipaglioli]

Hi Unmesh and thanks for Your always inspiring channel! I have to say that this method is very nice but, You can obtain same results by simple Hi-pass, You just have to put the Hi-pass layer in vivid light instead of overlay... You can also use it in linear light for an even greater sharpening effect. I'm involved in astrophotography and I always use these kind of sharpening tecniques. If You create several layers of Hi-pass with a decreasing kernel (blur) sizes one on top of each other, You're actually make what we call a wavelet sharpening function. Anyway many of Your videos inspired me alot in the creation of new techniques to be applied on astronomical photos so... Thank You very much and keep going!

[BizlaC]

I watched this video ages ago and knew there would be a time that I would come back to it. This evening was that time, I went out and got lots of exposures of the moon before it got dark, then used a median stack in Photoshop to remove all the ISO noise, and then a Vivid light sharpening, and the results blew my mind! Thank you Unmesh :)

[mpetrie]

This sharpening technique is now my go-to method in most instances. Holy cow, this is probably one of the best sharpening techniques I've tried. THANK YOU!

[youngcaptainkeos]

You are truly a PRO. also happy belated teachers' day. you work wonders, my friend. i will definitely be using this

[SpaceSpice]

Absoluetly stunning, never thinked about this process THAT way. Thank you for sharing!

[billmcdonald]

It's not very often I see something that makes me not believe my eyes, but when you blurred and things got _sharp, _ I was totally flummoxed. I've been using High Pass for years, and think it's the bees knees, but I've got to give this a go. Thanks so much!

[ferretyluv]

I’m not an editor but my boyfriend is. Long ago, I took an art class that taught me how to use photoshop back with CS2. I learned from a textbook how to edit stuff step by step. One of the things they taught was how to sharpen stuff. It used Gaussian blur to fix motion blur of a taxidermied bear. I remember adjusting the numbers in Gaussian blur in greyscale and then like magic, it was tolerably in focus. I’ve spent YEARS trying to convince my boyfriend that you can use Gaussian blur to fix motion blur, which he is convinced is impossible to fix. With your tutorial, I can finally prove him wrong. So thank you for validating me!