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November 15, 2022
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How smart sharpen works?

  • November 15, 2022
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How smart sharpen works? What formulas and parameters are used. Or maybe some algorithms?

How and what influences mathematical formulas. I am studying convolutional neural networks and trying to understand how smart sharpen works. However, there is no information on the internet

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Abambo
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 16, 2022

I think that what you need is to dig into Siggraph proceedings. If you are lucky, you will find some papers describing the fundamentals of the algorithms. We here are more interested at how the magic can be put into work, not what magic needed to be applied under the hood.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
TheDigitalDog
Inspiring
November 16, 2022

No one here can uncover the proprietary algorithms and math processes used here. 

Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
Myra Ferguson
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Community Expert
November 15, 2022

Here is some information from the online user guide about Smart Sharpen:

 

And here is some additional information from Photoshop CC (2014 release) Visual Quick Start: Refocusing:

 

Although you didn't mention Unsharp Mask, Jan Kabili does an excellent job explaining it in the video on this page: