Tatiana's Photoshop Blog

If you have a series of contiguous thumbnails that you wish to select or deselect, you can follow the same steps you would in the Library module in Photoshop Lightroom or Adobe Bridge’s Content panel. Click the first thumbnail in the series, press and hold Shift, and then click the last thumbnail in the series, then select or deselect any of the thumbnails to enable or dim them all. You can reselect the entire series using the same technique.

Photoshop lightroom 3 beta is now available:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom3/

If you do (and let me assure you, it is NOT rare), Here is how to solve it:

1. Make sure you use the Smart Sharpen window to do your sharpening
2. After playing the filter click on Edit > Fade Smart Sharpen
3. In the Fade dialog box choose Luminosity under the Mode drop down

Want to go further and do this non destructively?

Convert the layer to be sharpened into a Smart Object (no relation)  by right clicking on the layer and selecting Convert to Smart Object, then choose Filter and click on Convert for Smart Filters, then apply the smart sharpen filter, you will be able to revisit the filter and change the setting any time you want.

Now instead of using the fade command to get rid of chromatic abberations, simply right click on the Smart Sharpen layer in the layer pallete and choose Edit Smart Filter Blending Options and here change the blending mode to Luminosity.