I'll have to use Corel Photo-Paint terminology, since that's what I use.
Mask off (Adobe may call this selecting, I don't remember) the area you want
to sharpen. Sometimes easy, sometimes not. Easy if there's significant
differences in color, contrast, etc. Otherwise you gotta use the "magic
wand" tool (or whatever Adobe calls it), lasso or paint the mask on.
Combined with feathering it won't take too long. A graphics tablet or
touchpad makes it a bit easier.
You can even apply a fake bokeh effect by inverting the mask and applying a
blur or smoothing effect. Noise and despeckling filters work pretty well
for this too.
Also, if Photoshop has directional sharpening or adaptive sharpening, try
these instead of unsharp masking. They're more subtle and introduce less
noise.
Lex
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From: "Gregg" <giverson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] 50/3.5 and E100VS
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 19:46:19 -0400
OM content: How do some of you that use Photoshop sharpen just the
focal point and not the background? I don't want to disturb the bokeh
in a photo for our next TOPE.
Gregg
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