Smart Sharpening CS2

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Mark
May 14, 2005
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Im a digital shooter, and my weakest point is sharpening… I tend to jut use plugins like fred miranda and such. I just tried smart sharpening on a friends comp and copy of PS9.. looks good, but does it do anything that cant be dont on done on PS8 with the right skills?
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whizwhizwhizwhizwhiz
May 14, 2005
No. If you know what you are doing you can do a better job. It is still quite easy to get major haloing with Smart Sharpen. It isn’t as advanced as one would hope for a new sharpening plug-in, especially being added now after all these years of Adobe things USM was just fine.

"Mark" wrote in message
Im a digital shooter, and my weakest point is sharpening… I tend to jut use plugins like fred miranda and such. I just tried smart sharpening on a friends comp and copy of PS9.. looks good, but does it do anything that cant
be dont on done on PS8 with the right skills?

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Flo Nelson
May 14, 2005
Have you tried the high-pass filter? I use it for nearly all sharpening because you can have such control with it. Make a copy of your layer, run the high-pass filter (under ‘other’) so that you see only the outlines of the edges that you want sharper. Change the blending mode to either soft light (less sharpening) or overlay (more sharpening) – adjust the opacity of the filter layer as needed.

Takes a little practice to figure out the settings, but once you get the idea, it is easy and quick – and no halos. I usually start with soft light and bump up to overlay only if needed. You can also mask part of the layer where you want no sharpening at all.

Flo

"Mark" wrote in message
Im a digital shooter, and my weakest point is sharpening… I tend to jut use plugins like fred miranda and such. I just tried smart sharpening on a friends comp and copy of PS9.. looks good, but does it do anything that cant
be dont on done on PS8 with the right skills?

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