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Adjusting Detail

The Detail Mode of the Pro Interface is for adjusting the sharpness of image. The sharpening tools in PhotoTune are designed to help bring focus to images that are not natively sharp. The sharpening in PhotoTune only effects the luminosity, or detail of the image and does not effect the color. The controls for sharpness are located in the Detail pane. The controls are:

On/Off Toggle: This toggle enables the sharpening effect.
Sharpening: This Sharpening slider determines the amount of sharpening. Generally an amount of 50-150 is best more most images. You can also adjust the sharpening amount by sliding the preview image left and right.
Don't Sharpen Shadows: When enabled, this prevents the sharpening effect from being applied to the shadow tones of an image, reducing the sharpening of noise.
Don't Sharpen Highlights: When enabled, this prevents the sharpening effect from being applied to the highlight tones of an image, reducing the sharpening of noise in the sky as well as scanned negative film.
Don't Sharpen Skin: When enabled, this prevents the sharpening of effect from being applied to the skin color range of an image, based on the color selected in the SkinTune mode.

Tips:

The Don't Sharpen Skin option will only be enabled after using SkinTune.
Avoid using the sharpening in PhotoTune at high amounts, it is designed to bring back some lost sharpness to the image, but not for final sharpening for output. Final sharpening should only be done after the image has been resized for output and all other work is done.