Soft Image For Critique

Soft Image For Critique in Adobe Photoshop — with a ready prompt for the moment it comes up. 1 real situation leads here.

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Critique handouts are due in an hour and the still life photo they shot is too soft to show texture in print.

1 ready prompt

Written for the moment this actually comes up.

Decide — diagnose the stuck moment

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Sharpen this photographed still life so the texture studies print clearly for critique handouts,…
Sharpen this photographed still life so the texture studies print clearly for critique handouts, but avoid sharpening halos and noise. I don’t want the students’ charcoal smudges to pixelate. Tell me whether to use high-pass, smart sharpen or camera raw sharpening and give one setting range to try so the textures read on print at 100% without artifacts.

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