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How To Make Your Photographs Appear More Three Dimensional With Photoshop’s High Pass Contrast


The unfiltered image.

A low High Pass filter setting for sharpening

A high High Pass filter setting for contrast

The filter High Pass

Photoshop’s often overlooked filter High Pass is one every user should know. It can be either an edge sharpener or a unique luminosity contrast enhancer that produces a three-dimensional effect unlike any other tool.

When you use high Radius settings with the High Pass filter, it moves beyond sharpening and becomes tonal enhancement. The halos (light lines) and lines (dark lines) it produces become so broad and feathered that rather than only contour contrast (Think edges and thin lines.) they instead accentuate broader image contrast (Think planes chiseled by a sculptor.).  In short, images filtered with high High Pass settings look contrastier and more three dimensional, as if all the planes in an image are dodged and burned.

Take these steps to apply High Pass contrast.


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High Pass Sharpening

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Photoshop’s often overlooked filter High Pass is one every user should know. It can be either a unique luminosity contrast enhancer or a sharpener.

High Pass sharpening enhances edges with a softer halo and line and little or no accentuation of texture and noise. It bypasses many artifacts that trouble insensitive applications of Unsharp Mask.

High Pass sharpening requires layers so it’s only possible in Photoshop (not Lightroom or Camera Raw).

High Pass sharpening laid the foundation for Lightroom’s Print Sharpening, but in Photoshop it can also be used for creative sharpening, which can be combined with other sharpening effects and applied selectively.

Take these steps to apply High Pass sharpening.


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