Amazing software, Herb. Not too expensive either. Jens
Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Herb Chong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 9. juli 2004 02:56 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: *istD anti-aliasing? USM isn't a deblur filter. it appears to make things sharper, but what it is doing is enhancing contrast of edges. a deblur filter will do more than enhance contrast at edges. areas of low contrast will also get sharpened. try the FocusFixer filter at www.fixerlabs.com. Herb... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jostein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 4:49 PM Subject: Re: *istD anti-aliasing? > The other day, I took some shots with a FA50/1.4 stopped down to f/8 of a > black metal profile against a grey sky, and played around with USM in > photoshop CS. I also persuaded Cotty to send me a couple of files from his > Canon D60, and I plan to go to Darios site and download some stuff from > there as well. > > So far, my impression is that the USM mask is less effective on slightly > soft images. It tends to place the mask a couple of pixels further away from > the contrast edge, which results in much more visible halos. If this is > correct, I will jump to the conclusion that inherently soft files can't be > _made_ sharp in software. Which is a conclusion that reinforce my initial > sentiment that the *istD is too soft to begin with.
