What is the "unsharp Mask" in photoshop?

[Cris_L]

What is the difference between the unsharp mask in photoshop and the adjust sharpness function?

I've had a play around with them and they seem to do very similar things...

sorry for all the basic questions I always ask you guys!!

 

[specialman]

A few interesting things here:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?clie...oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&ei=Fl91TPilOsqNjAeq9ayhBg

 

[Deleted member 29733]

Just take a look at this on you tube....It gives you some idea. Another guy I like watching is Gavin Hoey you can find him on you tube and he is very easy to follow and is also easy to understand....and hes english.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_XkqsS6XKo