Sharpening

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Oh dear. Maybe it's because I sharpened it 450 percent (with the other values at their default settings of 1 for radius and 0 for threshold) so you would be sure and see the problem in a medium quality jpg. In any event, you can see the problem. The sharpening has affected every little spot and bump on the surface, in addition to the edges that you wanted done.		 next
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Color		 Fortunately, there is a way to prevent most of this. By setting how different the tones in two adjacent areas have to be before sharpening will take affect, you can prevent smooth toned areas like skin and sky from doing this.
      In the Unsharp Mask dialog box, this is set with the threshold slider.
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