Make Your Amateur Photos More Professional

With everyone and their grandmother having a digital camera you can make almost anybody look like a professional photographer, well, better-than-amateur at least. You can use this simple process on almost any photo you take.

Let's start with our regular, old, point-and-shoot photo. This one was taken with a little higher-end camera, but it can still use a lot of work.



First, we're going to sharpen our image a bit using the Unsharp Mask Filter > Sharpen > Unsharp Mask. We don't want anything too drastic, so I used some low settings. Amount: 40%; Radius: 0.9 pixels; Threshold: 1 level. You basically want enough to make a difference, but you don't want any glowing or hard edges.

source : http://www.photoshoplab.com/tips/