On Sat, 8 Jun 2002 11:56:29 -0500, you wrote: >Theoretically maybe; but out of curiosity, how does one do this in actuality >when one would have to first decompress the JPG file before one could carry >out the sharpening operations. Afterwhich, one would then recompress the >file again in its altered state which would be what typically causes the >artifacts and deterioration in JPG files to begin with?
Yes, I realized after I typed that what I actually do is resize the TIFF, edit, * sharpen * and THEN go to JPEG. It's in this resized TIFF that I see the increased sharpening or USM effects, over the raw intitial file. Ken Durling Visit my new easier-to-browse PhotoSIG portfolio: http://www.photosig.com/viewuser.php?id=203 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body