If you want to address this, you should add a Levels adjustment layer and pull the midtone point slightly to the right. Sharpening an image also tends to make it a tiny bit brighter. However, you should know that there are additional issues that occur when resizing images. Now you are done with the sharpening process. If you think that it looks somewhat over-sharpened, you can easily adjust it by just changing the opacity of the of the topmost layer (the one called “Extra sharpening”). Now that you have resized the image to the final output size, you should see that the image looks very sharp when you view it at its actual size. You do this by going to Image-> Image Size and enter 1200px as the width. Now you are ready to resize to the final image size. Then apply another round of sharpening by using the menu Filter-> Sharpen-> Sharpen. You can do this by pressing CMD+J (on Mac) or CTRL+J (on Windows). If you like to keep track of what each layer does, I suggest renaming the layer to “Sharpened.”Īfter applying this first layer of sharpening, duplicate the layer. You do this by going to Filter-> Sharpen-> Sharpen. This gives you an image that hasn’t degraded too much from being resized but is still relatively close to the final image size.īefore resizing to the final output size, you should add sharpening. To resize your image in Photoshop, you should go to Image-> Image Size and enter the width.
In this case, this would be 1.6 X 1200px = 1920px. 1.6 of the final output size that you want to use online. The first step is to resize your image down to approx. Let’s go through the process step-by-step using the dimensions from above as an example, resizing from a 6000px wide image down to 1200px wide. Instead, resize in two steps and sharpen in between the steps. However, this won’t lead to the best results as it may be difficult for Photoshop to properly sharpen an image that suffers from a quality loss when you resize a lot. It would be logical to go straight ahead and resize your image to the output size you want. However, let’s take a look at how not to resize images for online use before we dig into the best way to resize and sharpen in Photoshop.
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In this article, you will learn the common pitfalls to sharpening your images for web use, and more importantly, how to sharpen in a way that gives you both full control and the best results. You might have spent a long time processing your image so it would be a shame that it should end up as a less sharp online version.
But did you know that most of the web sharpening issues you experience come from the resizing process? Resizing your image can make your image look blurry and a lot less sharp than the full sized image. Most photographers come across web sharpening issues at some point. Do you struggle with getting your images to look super sharp when you use them online? Do they even look blurry? No matter if you share your images on social media platforms or photo sharing sites like Flicker and 500px, you want your images to look as sharp as possible.
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