Originally posted by alpheios There is a different technique for sharpening in Photoshop that I found to be much superior to unsharp masking. It’s called high pass sharpening. If you go to YouTube and search for „photoshop high pass sharpening“ you will find lots of tutorials on this technique. For me it really was a game changer.
I have found no difference between Elements and CC unsharp mask, however, I agree with @alpheios that using High Pass is superior in that you won't get the graininess artifact seen in unsharp mask.
Steps for using High Pass on Photoshop CC:
Layer->Duplicate Layer
Filter->Other->High Pass (I generally set it around 3 pixels)
From the layer window, change "Normal" to "Overlay"
Command E or Layer->Merge Down