
You can see that this picture is quite blurred with little contrast. This was taken by a friend of mine. He has turned it over to me to see if I could improve it. Let me try. I am using Photoshop CS 2.

Step 1 : I have right clicked the background layer. The above dialogue box opens. Click Duplicate Layer.

Step 2 : This dialogue box opens. Click OK.









Step 11 : Go to Image>Adjustment>Levels and the above dialogue box will open. I have dragged the sliders on the Output levels till I was satisfied.

Step 12 : Now I have gone to Image>Adjustments>Curves which brings up this dialogue box. I have selected RGB and pushed the top of the diagonal line down. Then I have selected the Green and made some further adjustments. You will have to experiment in the images you work with.

Step 13 : Now drag the Background copy to the New Layer Button this will create a duplicate layer. It is another way to duplicate the layer. Another method has been described in Step 1.

Step 14 : Go to Image>Mode>Lab Color

Step 15 : The above dialogue box opens. Click Flatten.

Step 16 : Go to Filters>Sharpen>Unsharp mask

Step 17 : This dialogue box will open. The threshold has been set to 0, Radious 2.0 and Amount 120.

Step 18 : Now change the image back to RGB mode by going to Image>Mode>RGB.

This is the sharpened image. Try it out.
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