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pression of mega-sharpening. I start by dragging the Radius slider all the way to the left
(everything turns gray onscreen), then I drag it over to the right. For non-HDR images, I
don't drag it all that far—I just drag until I see the edges of objects in the photos appear
clearly, and then I stop. The farther you drag, the more intense the sharpening will be, but
if you drag too far, you start to get these huge glows and the effect starts to fall apart, so
don't get carried away. Now, click OK to apply the sharpening.
Step Three:
In the Layers panel, change the layer blend mode of this layer from Normal to
Hard Light
.
This removes the gray color from the layer, but leaves the edges accentuated, making the
entire photo appear much sharper (as seen here). If the sharpening seems too intense, you
can control the amount of the effect by lowering the layer's Opacity in the Layers panel, or
try changing the blend mode to Overlay (which makes the sharpening less intense) or Soft
Light (even more so).
