Snapshot Image Cleaning

Time is precious and we don't want it to slip awaymask 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 aFinally, 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 preciousresult, it sharpens the overall image.
time when working with images in Photoshop - be itThe texture is no longer as soft as it first appeared.
an original copy image, something from a digitalThis is the time when the snapshots will save your
camera or from a scanned slide or negative. This isartwork.
usually used to clean up images such as images forTo 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-stepcan find it normally on the right in Photoshop by
method and is easy to recall. You can make use ofdefault. 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 withoutarrow-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 yourrelease your mouse, another dialog box will appear.
eyes are fixed to your subject, you can use thisYou must enter in it the name "unsharp eyes", then
method.click OK.
Soft-eyes are scanning problems inherent of theIf you have more than one snapshot in a working
natural film curvature while scanning. To avoidfile, do not forget to label your snapshots to be able
soft-eyes problems, use snapshots technique whichto have a better workflow management when it
allows fixation in few seconds. To do this, first opencomes 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 unsharpefficient scheme.