ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the capture sharpening stage. The image capture sharpening should be applied at the beginning and be dependent on the source image characteristics. The Radius determines the width of the halos that are generated around the edges in a photo. The Amount and Radius sliders control the sharpening effect. The Masking slider can be used to effectively add a filter mask based on the edge details of an image. The effect the Masking slider has on the Camera Raw sharpening is like a layer mask that masks the layer applying the sharpening effect. The Noise Reduction sliders in Camera Raw should be able to meet all people noise reduction requirements and therefore less need to rely on Photoshop or third-party products to carry out the noise reduction. The noise reduction in Camera Raw is also adaptive to different camera models and their respective ISO settings.
