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