On 28 Apr 2005 at 20:15, Boris Liberman wrote: > h. Then I would set sharpening to 75-100. And finally color noise > reduction I usually set to 0. That's because I rarely shoot in > low-key/underexposure situations. So I don't need this, I think. Again, > it could be I am mistaken with sharpness. As per Rob's suggestions, I > would always enlarge a portion of image to examine it. If I see clearly > that sharpening introduced artifacts, I would lower the sharpening level...
I rarely apply much if any luminance sharpening in the RAW convertor, I find that it isn't as effective as the sharpening techniques that I can apply in post processing such as masking + USM and also applying intelligent NR prior to sharpening. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
