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During this Photoshop Elements 15 tutorial video, we will show you how to sharpen or blur certain parts of an image by using the brush.

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Welcome back to our course on PSE 15. In this section we’re going to look at Sharpening and Blurring.

The particular image I’m looking at here of a butterfly on some flowers is probably potentially quite a nice picture. The background is quite blurred which tends to focus attention on the foreground.

And some of the flowers in the foreground are pretty much in focus and fairly steady. But the butterfly itself is a little bit blurry. It’s very difficult to take pictures of many types of animals, particularly flying insects and so on. And even when you do get a reasonable picture there’s usually some sort of motion, either the animals moving or the flower it’s on is blowing around and so on. So it’s quite often a requirement to be able to sharpen something a little.

Just in this case to bring the butterfly out a little bit from the flowers, which are already quite a prominent feature of the image. So what I’m going to do is to try to sharpen the butterfly a little bit.
Now the way that I’m going to do this is I’m going to zoom right into the butterfly. I’m going to try to sharpen one wing and then we can compare it with the other wing when I’ve done a little bit of work on it.

The tool I need to use the Sharpen tool. That’s in a group which is in the bottom left hand corner of the Enhance set in the toolbox. There is a Blur tool, there is a Sharpen tool and there is a Smudge tool. And we’re using the Sharpen tool first.

When I use the sharpen tool I choose a brush size and strength of the sharpening effect. It’s very important not to overdo sharpening because what you can do is make an image look extremely artificial. Apart from the size of the brush and the strength of the sharpening there’s a checkbox down there which is Protect Detail. What PSE tries to do when it’s sharpening is to get of pixels which have intermediate colors. They are the ones that are causing the blurriness in the image. And when it removes those intermediate colors what can happen is that you lose some of the detail in the image because pixels that are normally connected together start to get disconnected and the whole image starts to sort of break up.

If you keep Protect Detail checked then what PSE will do is to make sure that the parts of the image that should still appear to be connected are still connected. What I’m going to do then is choose a brush size. I think I’ll go up a little from what I have now. I’m going to stick with medium strength. This is definitely one where what you want to do is to practice a little on an image and just see what effect it has. I’m only going to work on the right wing and then we can compare it with the left wing.

So let me just brush over that right wing a few times. As I say I’m definitely not going to overdo this even though maybe I already have overdone it but there we are. I also find that generally speaking keeping the strength at a moderate level but applying many brushstrokes also produces the best results. Okay. Now I think you can already see the improvement in that right wing. And in fact what I might try is just do a little bit on the body as well.

Again not too much. But there, I think you can see the effect of the sharpening already.

Let me zoom out now and see how that looks. I think that’s quite an improvement. And of course if I worked on the left wing for a while I think I could sharpen that up very nicely as well. Already the right wing looks quite a bit sharper.

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