izit2much

"DD" wrote in message

I think I am oversharpening and this few photos
is in a temp directory only for the sake of getting
criticism/confirmation that I am exaggerating on
the ‘sharpening’ tools. A few is done via
‘Unsharp Mask’ but I then changed over to
Smart Sharpen’ and still can not make up
my mind which filter to use.
Maybe Smart Sharpen is somewhat easier.

http://finepix.95mb.com/2sharp/izit2much.html

None is tested on a printer yet, but I’d like
to hear what you’s think.
(reducing the sizes for the web, would have reduced
the sharpening as well, or not?)

Overall not bad.

A couple of the fish images look as if they started life with less than ideal sharpness, but if you overcompensated it was not by much. The dolphin image could use some masking – add your new image as a layer on the original, and add a layer mask so that you sharpen the dolphin and the water drops, but not the background.

The first lioness image has color fringing on the ears – if this was not present in the original image, sharpen the Lightness channel in Lab and see if that avoids the problem. If the fringing was there already it’s probably chromatic aberration, which may be fixed in other ways.
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Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
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On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 21:12:36 GMT, "Mike Russell" wrote:

"DD" wrote in message

I think I am oversharpening and this few photos
is in a temp directory only for the sake of getting
criticism/confirmation that I am exaggerating on
the ‘sharpening’ tools. A few is done via
‘Unsharp Mask’ but I then changed over to
Smart Sharpen’ and still can not make up
my mind which filter to use.
Maybe Smart Sharpen is somewhat easier.

http://finepix.95mb.com/2sharp/izit2much.html

None is tested on a printer yet, but I’d like
to hear what you’s think.
(reducing the sizes for the web, would have reduced
the sharpening as well, or not?)

Overall not bad.

A couple of the fish images look as if they started life with less than ideal sharpness, but if you overcompensated it was not by much. The dolphin image could use some masking – add your new image as a layer on the original, and add a layer mask so that you sharpen the dolphin and the water drops, but not the background.

The first lioness image has color fringing on the ears – if this was not present in the original image, sharpen the Lightness channel in Lab and see if that avoids the problem. If the fringing was there already it’s probably chromatic aberration, which may be fixed in other ways.

Thanks a lot Mike. I was hoping you’d look at it:-)
And I’m glad you say this is not (much) over sharpened.
Also thanx for saying how I should do the corrections on the dolphin and first lioness.
See you tomorrow. This is 25 minutes from Sunday the 9th:-)

Dave