3 STEP SHARPENING

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<p>What I don't like is the cultish allegiance to a program that most people can barely afford, and don't need.</p>

 

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<p>Again, <strong>your</strong> personal preference interfere with others perfectly reasonable and acceptable need for the product. Barely afford? I can pay for it in a days work with money left over and so can thousands if not more users. <strong>YOU</strong> don’t need it. Just say that and move on. The bias is so obvious and your consistent need to push your agenda onto others is as tiring as Mr. Beck’s rant above. </p>

 

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<p>I have to get to work now....</p>

 

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<p>And maybe we can take up a collection to get you a copy of Elements (which at $99 is a pretty awesome product). </p>

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<p><a href="/photodb/user?user_id=361342"><em>Andrew Rodney</em></a><em> </em><a href="/member-status-icons"><em><img title="Subscriber" src="http://static.photo.net/v3graphics/member-status-icons/sub9.gif" alt="" /><img title="Frequent poster" src="http://static.photo.net/v3graphics/member-status-icons/2rolls.gif" alt="" /></em></a><em>, Oct 13, 2009; 09:45 a.m.</em><br>

<em>Just say that and move on.</em></p>

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<p>I do, but people keep asking the same question.</p>

<p>Bill P.</p>

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<p>I do, but people keep asking the same question.</p>

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So true, its all over the web: “<em>Mr. Palminteri, sir, should I buy Photoshop, do I need it? Is it worth the money? What do you really feel about the company”? </em>

 

Shame on all those people who don’t know better.

<p>As an ex-Leica film man digital photography has been an eye opener for me. I use a 40D plus excellent lenses like the 100mm Macro f2.8. The 17-85 zoom should not be ignored and I have had some good results with it. <br>

I became aware that sharpening was important but some of the stuff I read was obsessional convoluted rubbish! I think Patrick has managed to present sharpening as it should be and I was very impressed by his article. I follow it very carefully. I use the Canon DPP plus CS2 if I need it. I must admit I am not too good with layers - I have no idea how to do them! I will learn.<br>

The snag I hit was the flattening stuff. When I try to go to Flatten Image it is greyed out and it doesn't work when I click on it. I must be doing something wrong. I will persevere.</p>

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<p><a href="../photodb/user?user_id=760139"><em>Patrick Lavoie</em></a><em> </em><a href="../member-status-icons"><em><img title="Hero" src="http://static.photo.net/v3graphics/member-status-icons/hero.gif" alt="" /><img title="Subscriber" src="http://static.photo.net/v3graphics/member-status-icons/sub7.gif" alt="" /><img title="Frequent poster" src="http://static.photo.net/v3graphics/member-status-icons/3rolls.gif" alt="" /></em></a><em>, Oct 13, 2009; 09:44 a.m.</em><br>

<em>Bill, i understand your point, the fact is that the example you provide dont have the same sharpen factor..</em></p>

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<p>Hi Patrick,<br>

I never intended to do a heads-up comparison, as you know, different programs use different algorithms, so a side-by-side comparison would be tricky.<br>

I did want to show that these pre-print processes are not mysteries that take hours to be slaved over with exotic software, and numerous different apps can perform the same tasks.</p>

<p>I downloaded and read your treatise on sharpening, and found it interesting and informative.<br>

Well done, and thank you.</p>

<p>Bill P.</p>

<p>P A T R I C K - T H A N K S F O R T H E P D F , I L O O K F O R W A R D T O <br>

T R Y I N G IT<br>

O U T.</p>

<p>T O M<br>

( H A R D O F H E A R I N G A N D A S L O W T A L K E R. )</p>

<p>Patrick,</p>

<p>thank you for the very good tutorial and the following discussion.</p>

<p>I have just started looking around for ways of sharpening images in post-processing, so forgive a naive question ;) When do you apply noise reduction and when do you apply sharpening?</p>

<p>In my case, I would initially edit an image in Lightroom, then export it to PS, do noise reduction in Noiseware (external plug-in for noise) and then sharpening with Smart Sharpen (until yesterday it was High Pass ;)).</p>

<p>However noise reduction reduces details, as well as sharpening produces some noise.</p>

<p>Would you run noise reduction again, before Step 2 or Step 3 sharpening?</p>

<p>Noiseware plugin has options for both noise reduction and sharpening, although I have no idea how they work together.</p>

<p>Would be great to hear how you handle noise together with sharpening.</p>

<p>Radek</p>

<p>Folks complaining about using capital letters. You have too much free time, give me a break.</p>

I haven't posted here for years, but I'm glad to make my first post back in one of Patrick's helpful tutorial threads. When I was last heavily involved at Photo.net, Smart Sharpen was only available on the latest releases of PS. Since I had an older version, I was still using USM. But now that I've got a more modern version of PS, I'm looking forward to migrating to Smart Sharpen. Having known (in a fashion) Patrick for many years, and seen the quality of his work and tutorials, I'm glad to have found a SS tutorial from him.

 

I haven't checked, but is he still around the community and posting tutorials/actions? I hope so! :)