Three Ways To Sharpen Your Images

Get the Most Out of Your Images With Affinity Photo’s Sharpening Modes. Jordan Butters Shows You How

- Jordan Butters

THERE ARE MANY ways to skin a cat, so I'm told, and in a similar vein if you want to carry out almost any image editing task you face a similar quandary as to which method to use. With image sharpening, there’s no one right way to do it – it’s more about finding a method that works for you, and your images, and applying it without going too far. Affinity Photo offers three excellent methods of extracting sharp detail from your images. Photoshop and Elements users need not fear – the filters and controls are much the same for you, too. Here’s how they work and how to best use them…

UNSHARP MASK

Although its name sounds contradictory, Unsharp Mask is one of the most popular sharpening options and the name derives from the way that the algorithm uses an unsharp version of the image to mask the original image and extract detail. Here’s how to use it…

1 ADD THE FILTER