Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Step Three:
Make two duplicates of the Background
layer by pressing
Command-J (PC: Ctrl-J)
twice. Then go to the Layers panel and click
on the center layer (shown highlighted
here). Now go under the Filter menu, under
Sharpen, and choose
Unsharp Mask.
This
is a low-resolution image we're working
on, so apply an Unsharp Mask with the
Amount set at 85%, the Radius set to 1,
and the Threshold set to 4 levels, and click
OK to apply the sharpening. (
Note:
If this
had been a full-resolution image from a
digital camera, I would have used Unsharp
Mask settings of Amount 120, Radius 1,
and Threshold 3.)
Step Four:
Now, after the sharpening, you're going
to apply a huge blur to this image. So,
click on the top layer in the Layers panel
(Layer 1 copy). Go under the Filter menu,
under Blur, choose
Gaussian Blur
, and
enter 25 pixels as the Radius, so it's really
blurry (like you see here).
