On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Paul Jones wrote:
> I have scanning some slides at work and then sharpening them to correct. I
> know most people use unsharp mask as opposed to sharpen. Why is that? and
> what setting do you use most of the time?
As other people have said, unsharp mask gives you the most control.
There are other techniques to sharpening, most of which involve
selecting parts of the image and only sharpen those, in order to avoid
sharpening parts without detail.
Last year, John Brownlow, the keeper of the streetphoto and
digitalsilver lists, posted something called "UltraSharpen". It is a
Photoshop macro that guides you through the process of selecting
edges, sharpening them, etc etc, with lots of control (sorry I don't
remember who the original author of the plugin was, you'll find out
when you use it) I think you can still get it at
ftp://ftp.pinkheadedbug.com/pub . While you're there, visit John's
site at http://www.pinkheadedbug.com, he has some very interesting
street photography.
j
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