Unsharp Mask vs Clarity vs Highpass Filter - Affinity Photo Tutorial

Understand the Difference between Unsharp Mask vs Clarity vs Highpass Filter in this Affinity Photo Tutorial. Three different methods to sharpen your image. Learn how they work and when to apply them. Find out what Radius, Factor and Threshold do in the Unsharp Mask. How is Highpass applied correctly and what does Highpass actually do. What is Clarity and how does Clarity work.
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00:00 Intro
01:17 Fundamental of Photo Editing
02:38 Clarity explained
04:47 Unsharpen Mask explained
08:33 Highpass Filter explained
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[@DarioDarrow]

The cats helped me understand the mysteriously threshold slider 🙌

[@OlivioSarikas]

Cats to the rescue 😄😍

[@enthusiaticbeginner]

Excellent explanation, Olivio! I will probably refer back to this video much more than the very many others I have watched.

[@jstorm41]

Excellent explanation. I have been using these for many years and didn't really understand. Now thanks to you I think I do.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Awesome! Glad it was helpful!

[@laurenwade4770]

Thank-you Olivio, I was looking for an explanation of different ways to sharpen last week and couldn't find anything nearly as good as your explanation here.

[@johnchilver536]

Extremely helpful Olivio thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@dreydt9820]

Very good technical tutorial explained Olivio ! Clear explanation, very good work !! 👍

[@Gentleman_Songster]

I must join the others and thank you for your clear explanation of how these things work, Olivio. I find I previously understood some aspects of them, but not all -- and now I do. I've used sharpening by trial and error to get the effect I want -- or at least one I like -- but now I can approach it with more understanding and hopefully save myself a lot of time. And like Terry below, I try to start with the sharpest image I can take.

[@rogerfx1307]

Wow! that was a top notch or excellent video. Very neat explanation making it easy to understand. Thanks

[@SousDine]

Despite using PSE and Affinity for a long time, this is by far the best and most complete explanation I have seen of what these tools do and how to use them.
I received a link from Affinity to one of your videos a few days ago (on selection), and have watched another on improving over-exposed images. These were also very clear and concise. Many thanks.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you very much. I'm happy I could helkp you

[@ColdCoffeePhotography]

I miss your great Affinity photo videos :(

[@johnchilver536]

That was the clearest explanation I have come across very helpful.

[@yeldaRooBTKAM]

Brilliant. More like this. Learning what selections do and why they are used it great for beginners. Just like you did when emplaning what luminosity, Clarity and Unsharp does and what it does to an image. Thats what I’d like to see. Thank My friend.

[@terrymcgovern6846]

Nice explanation, Olivio.
If there is one thing that most beginners at digital photography do most often, it is probably oversharpening. This is why, in my photos, I try for the sharpest focus possible, so that sharpening can be kept to a minimum. The most important thing you can take from this video is that sharpening is not adding detail, only the perception of it...

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you very much :) Yes that's true. Also a Image that isn't sharp to begin with, can't be sharpened in post. Another reason to try to shoot as sharp as possible :)

[@Goldmangun]

Very useful, thank you!

[@isabellestephan8356]

Thanks so much Olivio 👍🏻 the explanation with the cats is super 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@wrzlbrnth4092]

Good explanation. you mentioned frequency separation uses the high pass filter and gaussian blur. However, if you select bilateral blur (edge preserving) in the frequency separation it preserves the edge to a large extent and does not produce significant halos if at all. I also use a technique to apply only a bilateral blur filter and invert it. This then has an effect of sharpening. I use this almost exclusively and I apply a mask so that I can sharpen only in selected areas;THis is basically what frequency separation with a bilateral blur filter does. ( also with the gaussian blur) I have a macro in the Affinity forum that does this. This is not a new technique and has been used in photoshop for some time.

[@chrisdecraene9242]

Very interesting educational video. Thanks, Olivio.

[@OlivioSarikas]

my pleasure :)

[@CapitaineNautilus]

Brilliant !

[@GuidoFranssens]

Thanks for this video! I use clarity sometimes to soften things that are out of focus. Just slide to the left (minus) Works great with portraits

[@KainsTorment]

Although I can’t use Affinity Photo yet because I can’t use the Crop tool how I need. You are a really good teacher

[@barthartman1282]

Thank you, Olivio, for this comprehensive and clear video. A good addition to your video on microcontrast (also with a cat ;-)).

[@AffinityPC]

Awesome info!

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you very much :)

[@erichhonsal4652]

Olivio you are a hard-working man! Very good video again, easy to understand, but I see all your videos! See you tomorow. Greetings from Meidling!

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you so much and see you on Sunday :)

[@Allenballen88]

wow! explained so well! thank you!

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you so much :)

[@Allenballen88]

@@OlivioSarikas no thank you!

[@OlivioSarikas]

@@Allenballen88 my pleasure :)

[@filippoz1976]

Fantastico, iscritto ;)

[@EnsoIlluminations]

Olivia, you left the Clarity filter active when you added the Unsharp Mask filter and then left both sharpening filters active as you added the High Pass filter. Didn’t each sharpening filter add to the distortion and haloing to the images? You offered a good explanation of how each filter works but, because of the multiplication effect of layered sharpening filters, weren’t your close-up image examples exaggerated?

[@OlivioSarikas]

Hi Martin, nice find! I didn't spot that during recording. I reset the Clarity Filter to 0 before I moved on, but forgot to do so for the unsharpen Filter. For what I explain in the video it doesn't make any impavet on the principle of how these filters work. But you are correct that, if you would use them together in an actual editing workflow, they would stack and both sharpen the image at the same time. You can of course do that, but you need to adjust them both a bit softer, so the effect doesn't produce any halos or ugly edges. That said, the Highpass and Unsharpen Filter both build on the same concept of the Highpass filter :)

[@FishCow]

I find that if I open my mouth in an exaggerated way and hold my hand to my cheeks, I can sharpen so much more efficiently.

[@JohnCollins-iy1pw]

I assume Olivio you are editing RGB/16 bit images,as I prefer to convert my images to the LAB format for sharpening.Although I have watched the whole video and taken onboard you comments.Please keep up the good work.

[@byteseq]

good tutorial, but .... "e-fect"?

[@earljmaui_boy2546]

Aloha Olivio, and our favorite Latin lurker, et al.,
I understood everything you said as you were explaining it...
I just don't think I understand it all enough to share with anyone... LOL
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It was concise, thorough, and easy to follow...
It all made perfect sense... at the time... LOL
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Maybe you could make a "cheat sheet" . . .
OR
I could just revert to taking better notes as you explain things... (grin)
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Great tutorial... sound approach... very precise... thanks for making it and sharing it with us...
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𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒘, 𝑵𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝑪𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒂;
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Until that time. . .