DI Direct ProSharp - Enhance the crispness of your photos without over-sharpening.

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This issue of DI Direct tackles the tricky subject of sharpening providing you with a guide to how best to add crispness to your digital photos without the risk of over-sharpening your images. The publication starts by explaining how digital sharpening works and then provides an overview of the most used Photoshop sharpening features, the Unsharp Mask and Smart Sharpen filters, and goes on to demonstrate the way that each filter setting alters the look of the final result. After that we look at ways to apply these filters so that your original photos are always protected, how to localize the the sharpening effect and we even introduce a non-filter-based technique the professionals have been keeping a secret for years.

Using the popular Read It – Tap It – Do It approach you can work your way through each step in the tutorials using your iPad to drive Photoshop on your desktop. Once you have explored the techniques rotate the tablet sideways to see a range of sharpening recipes (33 in all) that you can apply to your own photos. Yes with a single tap.

This is a whole new way of experiencing the power of Photoshop. You read the technique on your iPad, tap the step entry and it is done in Photoshop. Yes it's that simple. You even get to perform the enhancements on the very images that are illustrated in the iPad book. Just tap the Open In Photoshop button and the image appears on your desktop in Photoshop ready for you to work your enhancement magic.

Become the Photoshop master that you have always wanted to be with this revolution in inspirational and instruction publishing now.

NOTE: To use the connectivity feature in this publication you will need to be running the latest version of Photoshop CS5 (go to Help > Updates), have the current version of iTunes installed and have your desktop computer and iPad logged into the same wireless network. For full setup instructions go to the DI DIRECT COMMAND CENTER page in the publication.