| bottom-link"> | | | | mask. After that, a dialog box will appear with unsharp |
| | | | mask defaults. Set the default amount to 75 percent, |
| Time is precious and we don’t want it to slip | | | | radius to 1 pixel and threshold levels to zero or one. |
| away that easy without taking advantage of its | | | | Finally, click OK. You may notice that the entire image |
| significance. To circumvent waste of time, Snapshot | | | | has the unsharp mask applied to it beforehand. As a |
| can be a great help to us. | | | | result, it sharpens the overall image. |
| Snapshot is a valuable technique to save our precious | | | | The texture is no longer as soft as it first appeared. |
| time when working with images in Photoshop — | | | | This is the time when the snapshots will save your |
| be it an original copy image, something from a digital | | | | artwork. |
| camera or from a scanned slide or negative. This is | | | | To correct the flaws, you must go to the history |
| usually used to clean up images such as images for | | | | palette. If it you did not find it in your desktop, you can |
| publication use. | | | | find it normally on the right in Photoshop by default. Go |
| The technique is so easy, it only involves a four-step | | | | to window > Show history. Once you have located |
| method and is easy to recall. You can make use of | | | | your history palette, select the bold arrow-button on its |
| this in many situations like adjusting levels, color, | | | | right side. Click and hold it until a menu appears then go |
| saturation, sharpness and other corrections without | | | | to New Snapshot. When you release your mouse, |
| wasting time with layer masks, lasso tools, layers, | | | | another dialog box will appear. You must enter in it the |
| rubber stamping or magic wand. To ensure that your | | | | name “unsharp eyes”, then click OK. |
| eyes are fixed to your subject, you can use this | | | | If you have more than one snapshot in a working file, |
| method. | | | | do not forget to label your snapshots to be able to |
| Soft-eyes are scanning problems inherent of the | | | | have a better workflow management when it comes |
| natural film curvature while scanning. To avoid | | | | to organization of your images. It is nice to do it that |
| soft-eyes problems, use snapshots technique which | | | | way for easy and fast selection and for an efficient |
| allows fixation in few seconds. To do this, first open | | | | scheme. |
| your file. Then go to filter > sharpen > unsharp | | | | |