Need selective sharpening help

[JohnT]

How do I undo the removal of selective sharpening in PSCS2? Here's what I mean:

1) I make a duplicate layer of the original image.
2) Apply sharpening to that layer.
3) On same layer, I erase the sharpening of the background, leaving only desired area(s) sharpened.

I then discover that I want to reinstate sharpening on a part of the image where I erased it. How do I do this?

[Clint_Smith]

using layers is the hard way to selective sharpen.

Go here and read this. A fellow TPF member, Rolando Gomez, has this article on his site and it has streamlined my entire workflow because the history brush works on virtually any editing secnario.

http://glamour1.com/tips/articles/snapshots.php

[Detonate]

Just use Masks. That's what I do. This way you aren't deleting anything, you are just hiding it. And at anytime you can make any portion visible or invisible.

[Daniel Bates]

I second the Masks suggestion. Why does Adobe even continue to add the Eraser tool to the pallete? I've never used the thing, not since masks came out at any rate!

[JohnT]

Thanks, guys. I'll have a look at the Snapshot tutorial and take a closer look at masks.