Photoshop for Mac M1; Smart Sharpen Fixed

Using the Smart Sharpen filter in PS on a Mac equipped with the M1 series of chips would cause vertical lines in various places in the image. The latest upgrade, 23.3, fixes that and greatly improves the speed of using the sharpening filters. Took a while, but nicely done.

 

Again, this applies only to those of us using PS on a Mac with the M1 chipset. Seems like Adobe figured out how to take full advantage of all those GPUs.

Smart Sharpen with windows 11 still crashes photoshop. Latest update downloaded today, 13.04.2022.

Try trashing your Photoshop preferences. Press and hold Alt+Control+Shift (Windows) or Option+Command+Shift (Mac OS) immediately after launching Photoshop. You will be prompted to delete the current settings.

 

(Mac OS only) Open the Preferences folder in the Library folder, and drag the Adobe Photoshop CS Settings folder to the Trash.

 

This action only affects the items found in the preferences dialog box. Numerous program settings are stored in the Adobe Photoshop Preferences file, including general display options, file-saving options, performance options, cursor options, transparency options, type options, and options for plug‑ins and scratch disks. Brushes (and lots of other setting) are not affected by the above instructions for deleting preferences. You may wish to make a screen capture of the settings in the Preferences dialog to reset them prior to deleting of this file.

Thanks for this! I've always used a Topaz plugin (now Sharpen AI) or a High-pass filter for masked/blended sharpening. But PS Smart Sharpen seems to work just fine on W10 too. I'm pretty sure I'll never get around to it but it would be interesting to compare and contrast.

Thanks for this! I've always used a Topaz plugin (now Sharpen AI) or a High-pass filter for masked/blended sharpening. But PS Smart Sharpen seems to work just fine on W10 too. I'm pretty sure I'll never get around to it but it would be interesting to compare and contrast.

 

I've tried the highh-pass filter, but honestly, the smart sharpen works just fine for me. Plenty of options there to fiddle with the settings. Just glad it's working again.

Try trashing your Photoshop preferences. Press and hold Alt+Control+Shift (Windows) or Option+Command+Shift (Mac OS) immediately after launching Photoshop. You will be prompted to delete the current settings.

 

(Mac OS only) Open the Preferences folder in the Library folder, and drag the Adobe Photoshop CS Settings folder to the Trash.

 

This action only affects the items found in the preferences dialog box. Numerous program settings are stored in the Adobe Photoshop Preferences file, including general display options, file-saving options, performance options, cursor options, transparency options, type options, and options for plug‑ins and scratch disks. Brushes (and lots of other setting) are not affected by the above instructions for deleting preferences. You may wish to make a screen capture of the settings in the Preferences dialog to reset them prior to deleting of this file.

Hi Andrew, tried your recommendation without success. Adobes answer is to uncheck "Use Graphics Processor" which fixes the issue and Smart Sharpen works.

I don't very often take photo's to Photoshop doing most of what I need in Lightroom, so I'll give Smart Sharpen a miss.

If turning OFF GPU works, it's a GPU bug and you need to contact the manufacturer or find out if there's an updated driver for it. On the Mac, that's part of the OS update(s) so if this is the latest OS version, you may need to roll back a release.

Also see: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/acr-gpu-faq.html

Also see: P: 23.2 Issue - Previously saved files with adjust... - Adobe Support Community - 12757757

This may well be a completely redundant post but - for posterity - I'm adding it anyway. This approach applies only to PP software that supports layers and filters,

 

IMHO 'sharpening' of photos is done in 4 steps:

1. Duplicate the layer to be sharpened.

2, Sharpen the duplicated layer to the desired degree. A variety of tools and techniques can be used for this

3. It's often necessary to 'tone down the sharpening by blending the sharpened layer at less than 100%

4. Usually, you don't want (or need) to sharpen a whole photo to the same degree. So 'masking' the sharpened layer is useful in applying the sharpened layer where you need it and blocking it where you don't need it

 

Occasionally, you might need different degrees of sharpening across the photo, In these cases, the same principles apply, In steps 1 and 2, create multiple layers with different degrees of sharpening, Blend (step 3), and mask (step 4) these layers to create the desired effect.

If posting for posterity, let's go back to sharpening (why, where, and when) before how:

Out of Gamut: Thoughts on a Sharpening Workflow | CreativePro Network

All this is built into Lightroom Classic (well sort of, not much 'creative sharpening').

I've tried the highh-pass filter, but honestly, the smart sharpen works just fine for me.

 

Smart sharpen and a high pass filter work very differently, and IMHO, which is best varies from image to image. When I'm sharpening in Photoshop, I often create one layer with each and toggle back and forth.

 

The sharpening tools in LR have evolved over time, and they often work well.