I’m late to the game on this trick, but I just learned it today so I think it’s pretty cool.  I’ve been sharpening images with Photoshop’s Unsharp Mask for quite a while.  It has worked pretty well for me, though it isn’t terribly easy to selectively apply or adjust after the fact.  Enter the Hgh [...]

I got this from a guest tutorial by Mark Riley over at PhotoWalkthrough.com.  I saw this just days after looking through my collection of Photoshop books looking for this very thing.  Anyway, the very easy steps to a simple vignette: Create a new layer Change the blending mode to ‘Soft Light’ Fill the layer with [...]