Hi Thomas,
What are you using for photo editing? Using unsharp is severely limiting.
Hi Chip,
at the moment, I use Paint Shop Pro 7, I also have the older Micrografx Picture Publisher 8. For some things, I like PP8 better, but then again, it also has some bugs, which prevent it from being even more useful. PSP7, OTOH, while quite a bit newer, seems not to be the big improvement over PP8 I hoped for, but at least it has a (for me) better color management. Photo Shop is just too expensive, I'm not willing to spend that kind of money on an image editing software, I always think about the goodies this money would buy me in hardware (lenses, DSLR).
I used Paint Shop Pro and kept upgrading as they improved it but bit the bullet several months ago and bought PS 7.X. PSP 7.X is still a pretty good program. BUT with all the books and on-line support forums etc. combined with the educational version of PS for less than $250 I figured it was worth it over Elements for me. For most Elements will probably be all you need and Fred Miranda's actions and new Plug-Ins are coming out for Elements slowly but surely.
Well, no way to use an educational version here. And Elements actually seems to be less capable than PSP7 or PP8. PP8 is a quite powerful tool. At the time I bought it, it was better in some ways than Photoshop (version 5 bach then, I think), as far as image editing/processing is concerned.
If you have layers and can control the opacity of the layers there is probably a way to get sharpening action with minimal color noise added.
Both, PSP7 and PP8, can do that. PP8 even claims to be able to use Photoshop plugins, not sure about PSP7. Anyway, I can't complain about the results of unsharp masking my ISO 50 G3 images.
Thomas Bantel
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