Sharpening Applications

I use photokit sharpener pro. works great for me. certainly better than my own attempts at unsharp mask.

allan
 
Hi- If you have Photohsop or Gimp you could use what is described in the following thread.

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10676&highlight=high+pass+sharpening

I'm not sure if you have the same capabilities in Photoshop Elements.

The methods discussed are not a single button push, but they do allow for considerable flexibility. Espicially if you use the methods on indvidual color channels.

Note: If your image starts out grainy, the methods will emphasize that.
 
keoj said:
Has anyone had good (or bad) experiences with sharpening applications?

keoj
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Sharpening is pretty important in the workflow of the digital darkroom and you can get great results from it. Photokit Sharpener Pro is a fine app but it requires an RGB file to work on, so if you're using grayscale files you'll have to convert them. FocalBlade is good too, and works on grayscale images. Each have their pros and cons. Here's a link to another workflow that you can use in Photoshop.

http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototips/high-pass-sharpening-photoshop.html

This high pass method is a good one. Note that there are many tutorials for this method on the web and this is just one of them. In general, for all these methods, the idea is that you want to sharpen some parts of the picture but not necessarily all, and so all of the above workflows use some form of edge detection.

Ed
 
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