# Standard

### Model Overview

**Sharpen Standard** is an all-purpose sharpening model designed for images with mild lens softness or slight motion blur, delivering balanced detail recovery with minimal intervention.

Produces clear images with crisp details. Unlike traditional sharpening that darkens or brightens pixel edges.

### Key Capabilities

* Optimized for subtle lens blur and light motion blur
* Recommended starting point for most photography sharpening workflows

### Model Pricing

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### Getting Started

**Endpoint**

* <https://api.topazlabs.com/image/v1/sharpen/async>
  * `model` — `"Sharpen"`

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<summary><strong>Endpoint-Specific Parameters</strong></summary>

* `denoise_strength` — decimal between 0 and 1, default 0.5
  * Removes noise from the image.
* `face_enhancement` — boolean
  * Leverages our face recovery model to enhance faces.
* `face_enhancement_strength` — decimal between 0 and 1
  * Sets the strength of the face recovery.
* `face_enhancement_creativity` — decimal between 0 and 1
  * Choose realistic or creative face recovery.
* `subject_detection` — `"All"`, `"Foreground"`, or `"Background"`
  * Choose where enhancements are applied.

These parameters should be appended as key-value fields in the form-data request bodies (i.e. alongside the `model`, `output_height`, and `face_enhancement` etc. fields). Any parameters not explicitly provided are **automatically** configured by our auto-parameter model. Extra parameters provided that are not supported are ignored.

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**Model-Specific Parameters**

* `sharpen_strength` — decimal between 0 and 1, default 0.5
  * Removes blur from the image.
* `opacity` — decimal between 0 and 1, default 1.0

**Resolution Limits**

* `input` — 512 MP
* `output` — 512 MP

### Examples

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