joel_p Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 <p> <p>apologies here is the photo....</p> <p>Dear all,<br />i have been trying to sharpen the following photo of my daughter, especially around the eyes. I can't really get it to an acceptable level without generating too much noise. I have tried the PS and Aperture sharpening tools and have experimented with Nik Software. At what point do you toss the image and start again? Any suggestions on technique or software would be most appreciated.<br />Cheers,<br />joel</p> </p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarle_aasland Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 <p>Judging from this screen sized photo, I think it looks fine. I wouldn't worry about it.</p> <p>Jarle </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacopo_brembati Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 <p>Joel,<br> the photo is not very soft.</p> <p>Anyway I retouched it using PhotoResampling.<br> PhotoResampling has a tool to sharpen keeping noise at low level.<br> My editing was performed in selective mode.</p> <p><img src="http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/9433/00tu7u153415584gbs.jpg" alt="" /><br> <img src="http://img195.imageshack.us/i/00tu7u153415584gbs.jpg/" alt="" /></p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacopo_brembati Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 <p>duplicate<br /> <img src="http://img195.imageshack.us/i/00tu7u153415584gbs.jpg/" alt="" /></p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joel_p Posted July 11, 2009 Author Share Posted July 11, 2009 <p>Thanks Jacopo, I hadn't previously heard of PhotoResampling - will give it a try. </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlesheckel Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 <p>Jacopo responded appropriately--the problem is indeed noise, which shows up with a vengeance when you attempt to sharpen. I took a swing at it from another direction: altering the tonal curve with Shadow/Highlight and a couple of Curves manipulations. Better picture overall, though I have to say I like Jacopo's skin treatment better.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarle_aasland Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 <p>So far, the original is by far the best, in my opinion.</p> <p>Please stop this "sharper is better" madness :-)</p> <p>Jarle</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_mounier Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 <p>I think the sharpness is fine too. I'd spend time on the color next.</p> <p>Peter</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rene gm Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 <p>Too soft, but you can easily sharpen it. Try to sharpen the eys and contours only, if your software allows this. Moreover, it has a blue cast.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wogears Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 <p>Here's another shot at it.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joel_p Posted July 12, 2009 Author Share Posted July 12, 2009 <p>thanks guys....the color tone changes do make a difference. Still, I like these type of shots to be tack shark,...good thing my model ain't going anywhere ;-)<br> cheers,<br> joel</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stsva Posted July 12, 2009 Share Posted July 12, 2009 <p>Joel-<br /> It's very difficult to assess sharpness from a small, low-res web post image. If you post a 100% crop at full resolution we'll be able to give you better input on sharpness.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stsva Posted July 12, 2009 Share Posted July 12, 2009 <p>Here's another shot at editing it.</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Martyr Posted July 15, 2009 Share Posted July 15, 2009 <p>i agree with jarle and the edited versions get worse and worse! do you people have your monitors calibrated?! and why are you wasting your tyme trying to edit a low res compressed version of this shot? tell the op HOW to edit it like he asked and move on!</p> <p>and Joel, if you want things to be tack sharp, shoot them right the first tyme! this photo doesn't seem so unreproducable that you can't just go take it again!</p> <p> </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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