ABSTRACT
Basic Smart Sharpen mode The Smart Sharpen filter has three blur removal modes: Gaussian Blur is more or less the same as the Unsharp Mask filter, but the Lens Blur method is the more useful as it enables you to counteract optical lens blurring. Lastly, there is Motion Blur removal, which can sometimes be effective at removing small amounts of motion blur from an image. After you have selected a blur removal method, you can use the Amount and Radius slider controls to adjust the sharpening effect. In the example shown on the page opposite I first went to the Filter menu and chose ‘Convert for Smart Filters’, which converted the Background layer to a Smart Object layer. This allowed me to apply the Smart Sharpen filter as a ‘smart filter’, where I could edit the filter effect coverage by painting on the layer mask. An alternative option would be to duplicate the Background layer and apply the Smart Sharpen filter to that layer, but the advantage of the Smart Object/Smart filter layer approach is that the Smart Sharpen filter settings remain editable.
