Sharpening Your Images for Print

This should really be called “Oversharpening Your Images for Print in Photoshop,” because that’s pretty much what you do. Here’s why: after you get your sharpening so it looks good onscreen, when you print your image, you’ll think it looks a little soft and that’s because you lose some of the sharpness you see onscreen during the printing process. So, to get around this, we oversharpen our images in Photoshop. Here’s what to do: First, get the sharpening so it looks good onscreen (I use Photoshop’s Unsharp Mask filter, and if you’re looking for a starting place, try these settings: Amount: 120%, Radius: 1, and Threshold: 3). Now, if that looks good onscreen, start slowly dragging the Amount slider to the right, which increases the amount o....