Graphics Programs Reference
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Sharpening your image
Now that you have adjusted the tonal values of your image, you'll want to apply some
sharpening to the image. In this section, you'll discover how to use unsharp masking. It
is a confusing term, but is derived from the traditional (pre-computer) technique used to
sharpen images.
To simplify this example, you'll l atten the adjustment layer into the Background layer.
If you are an advanced user, you can avoid l attening by selecting the Background layer,
Shift+clicking on the Curves 1 layer, then right-clicking (Windows) or Ctrl+clicking (Mac OS)
and choosing Convert to Smart Object. This embeds the selected layers into your Photoshop
i le, but allows you to view and work with them as one layer. If further editing is needed, you
can simply double-click on the Smart Object layer, and the layers open in their own separate
document.
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Choose Flatten Image from the Layers panel menu, as shown in the i gure below.
Choose Flatten Image from the panel menu.
