{"id":17179,"date":"2011-09-27T08:50:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T15:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=5034"},"modified":"2011-09-27T08:50:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T15:50:36","slug":"photoshop-cs5-hidden-gem-brush-based-sharpening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/27\/photoshop-cs5-hidden-gem-brush-based-sharpening\/","title":{"rendered":"Photoshop CS5 hidden gem: Brush-based sharpening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Way back when&#8211;before you learned never to be caught dead near Photoshop&#8217;s Dodge, Burn, Sharpen, or Brightness\/Contrast tools, as no Real User&#x2122; would ever give them a second look&#8211;didn&#8217;t those tools seem nicely simple &#038; straightforward?  Trouble is, over time better (if usually more complicated) alternatives emerged, so folk wisdom dictated that these tools be treated as obsolete.<br \/>\nWe liked how direct the tools were, though, so in Photoshop CS4 and CS5 we updated the underlying algorithms.  In the 1-minute video below, Photoshop PM Bryan O&#8217;Neil Hughes shows how effective it can be to apply sharpening via painting:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"216\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EGji4eWxdm0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back when&#8211;before you learned never to be caught dead near Photoshop&#8217;s Dodge, Burn, Sharpen, or Brightness\/Contrast tools, as no Real User&#x2122; would ever give them a second look&#8211;didn&#8217;t those tools seem nicely simple &#038; straightforward? Trouble is, over time better (if usually more complicated) alternatives emerged, so folk wisdom dictated that these tools be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}