It's generally understood in the Photoshop world that almost every image can benefit from judicious sharpening.

In the first installment of this series, we looked at the theory of sharpening and how it works.

Most of these center around different ways of exposing your shots - however many cameras also give options for different focusing modes (auto, continuous focusing for moving subjects and manual). Itâ??s no wonder then that many photographers never make use of their camera and lensâ?? ability to focus manually. In fact this week I spoke with one DSLR owner recently who hadnâ??t even noticed the manual/auto focus switch on the side of his lens. Image by dsevilla When is Manual Focus Better than Au

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Learn how to sharpen your images through lab mode.

Some sharpness is lost with a digital capture or scan. This first sharpening technique corrects that.

Let’s start at the beginning! Return to the basics and see how you can sharpen your photos easily…

If there's one thing about editing digital photos that frustrates people, it's how to sharpen them.

Lab color sharpening is really good if you want to avoid the color halos that appear when you add a lot of sharpening to a photo. This tutorial will show you how you do it.

Sharpening images has always been a tricky operation as the line between sharpness and artificial results is very thin. Here are a few techniques to help you out.

Learn how to effectively sharpen photographs in Photoshop.

Sharpen the edges of a portrait without sharpening the skin. This sharpening technique detects edges and applies sharpening only to the edges.

Many times, we find a picture which lacks overall sharpening and details. This tutorial helps you to increase the sharpness of the picture.

All digital images can benefit from some sharpening. Translating the continuous tones of the real world into a mosaic of square pixels will inevitably introduce some softness into an image. With digital captures, this is more noticeable with RAW files because cameras typically apply some amount of in-camera sharpening to JPEG captures but not to RAW captures.

Everything to know about smart sharpening.

Learn to sharpen your image with this quick tutorial :)

Here are two optional sharpening techniques to clean up those digital photographs. Option one can speed up your work flow, while option two offers greater control with a more obscure, yet powerful tool, the High Pass Filter.

The alternative of getting noise free and artifacts sharpening using the high pass filter.

This tutorial will let you create the overall feeling of sharpness, without emphasizing the texture of the skin.

This classic sharpening method gives you excellent detail retention and superb control for getting your images sharp for screen and print output. Learn what sharpening means and how to optimize the process.