>Sharpness cannot be restored, it can only be simulated. Sharpening causes >deterioration in image quality, so it should be avoided until the image is >about to be prepared for a specific use. I archive all my images without >sharpening.
Agree. This is how I do mine. I'll do all the crop, tonal and other adjustments -- except resizing -- and archive that photoshop psd file (and the original vuescan raw scan file). Then for specific "purposing" I'll resize or resample as appropriate and sharpen as a last step before sending file to its destination. As this discussion has pointed out, the specific actions for purposing will be different depending on the use and destination. Even sharpening: some places will do their own sharpening (as mentioned). If I know this then I'll only lightly sharpen edges (a first stage of a two pass sharpening process, described in a Creativepro article by Bruce Fraser at <www.creativepro.com/story/feature/12189.html?origin=story>). This article addresses one of the discussion items of this thread here: in Fraser's words "one of the important questions about sharpening: When in the image-editing process should you sharpen?" Another aspect of purposing, different for different destinations, is the file format. I've had more than one publicist and publisher request that I provide (email, ftp) a jpeg in preference to a tiff because of the file size. (For this I use a high/maximum quality in photoshop terms: 10 to 12.) -- Bob Shomler http://www.shomler.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
