Simple way to Sharpen Images in Photoshop

Simple tip to sharpen images in realistic way.

Our final output would be like this

Highpass_before_after

 

Open a Jpeg

Duplicate the layer by Ctrl+J

Desaturate the below layer using Ctrl+Shift+U or gradient map (Black at Position 0 and White at 100)

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Goto filters - Other - HighPass (move the slider to get a median highlights and shawdows)

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and its over now

simply change the Blending mode of the above Jpeg into "Overlay"

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give's an astonishing output. 

 

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