one of my wallpapers retouched

[Zeealex]

hey,
one of my friends told me that a wallpapers i made on photoshop and posted up on another forum was pixelated and blurred at it's max resolution (1400x1050) buggerish. but i found a filter that helped me out no end in getting the quality back so:
before:

After:

the filter was the high pass sharpen filter. if you look around you'll find it pretty easy

 

[Hoogle]

yep got to love high pass overlay

 

[Zeealex]

it's a great little plugin, i'm glad i found it now

 

[SeniorS]

There is plugin for that?
I love it too, have action and shortcut for that.

 

[Zeealex]

Downloads - Photo-Plugins
the one i used

 

[SeniorS]

Hmm...its writen it's free...but can i use it at official work?
And what it really do? Make High Pass filter with overlay? If so then i wouldn't risk.

P.S. Thanks anyway.

 

[Zeealex]

three settings.
normal, overlay and hard light

 

[SeniorS]

Hmm...intresting what use can be from normal mode...okey, i'll check it at home.

 

[Paul]

A nice bit of depth helps mate.

 

[Hoogle]

I dont get why you need an external plugin when it is already built in photoshop fiter > other >high pass and then set the bending mode to however you want the trick is with the duplicated layer your adding the high pass on is to adjust the pixel radius so that it is almost a line drawing on the grey background then you get really sharp results. if need be then duplicate the high pass layer a few times

 

[SeniorS]

Thats for them who don't know how to make actions and want to press one "button" instead of 10

 

[iDad]

I was thinking the same as Hoogleman

 

[Zeealex]

to answer hoogleman, the built in version isn't as good, i have a little more variety within the controls of the plugin than with the built in version.

plus on the odd occasion it crashes photoshop, i'm running it under a compatibility layer so...

@belial Thanks mate, i'll bare that in mind.