correcting an overshrpend image

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Roger Collins
Apr 5, 2006
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I have some images that while trying to sharpen I have oversharpened. The images have been closed and reopened so no opportunity to simply go back in the history palette. Would anybody have a solution for correcting my previous mistakes ? Using CS2
Thanks in advance for any help.
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Tacit
Apr 5, 2006
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"Roger Collins" wrote:

I have some images that while trying to sharpen I have oversharpened. The images have been closed and reopened so no opportunity to simply go back in the history palette. Would anybody have a solution for correcting my previous mistakes ?

You can not undo the effect of too much sharpening. Go back to your backup copy of the image.

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nomail
Apr 5, 2006
tacit wrote:

I have some images that while trying to sharpen I have oversharpened. The images have been closed and reopened so no opportunity to simply go back in the history palette. Would anybody have a solution for correcting my previous mistakes ?

You can not undo the effect of too much sharpening. Go back to your backup copy of the image.

If he had a backup copy, he wouldn’t ask this question, would he? You can try with a very slight Gaussian Blur, but don’t expect miracles.

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PacMan
Apr 5, 2006
Options:

1. you could repaint the whole image in Corel Painter in about 48 hours and extreme experience.
2. airbrush and brush in photoshop the detail back in in about the same amount of time 🙂 of course unless you’ve done this a lot, it will look like a painting 🙂
3. pick another photo.
4. If large enough reduce the image to under 2” when printed. ( it’s will be so small you wont notice the problem )

that’s it. the pixel detail is gone… good bye. C ya later.

On 2006-04-05 02:52:33 -0300, "Roger Collins" said:

I have some images that while trying to sharpen I have oversharpened. The images have been closed and reopened so no opportunity to simply go back in the history palette. Would anybody have a solution for correcting my previous mistakes ? Using CS2
Thanks in advance for any help.

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Cheers
PacMan
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Mike Russell
Apr 5, 2006
"Johan W. Elzenga" wrote in message
tacit wrote:

I have some images that while trying to sharpen I have oversharpened. The
images have been closed and reopened so no opportunity to simply go back in
the history palette. Would anybody have a solution for correcting my previous mistakes ?

You can not undo the effect of too much sharpening. Go back to your backup copy of the image.

If he had a backup copy, he wouldn’t ask this question, would he? You can try with a very slight Gaussian Blur, but don’t expect miracles.

I agree with Johan on both counts. Unlike blur, sharpening does not destroy data – much anyway. Dupe the image to a new layer, and use gaussian blur, with the same radius setting as the Unsharp Mask that you used. Then play with the transparency and you should be very close to your original image.

BTW – if your flash card has not been modified, you may be able to recover the original images using a program like photorescue .
http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/
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Mike Russell
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Roger Collins
Apr 6, 2006
Thanks for all the suggestions, especially Mike and Johan. I’ll certainly be more careful next time.
"PacMan" wrote in message
Options:

1. you could repaint the whole image in Corel Painter in about 48 hours and extreme experience.
2. airbrush and brush in photoshop the detail back in in about the same amount of time 🙂 of course unless you’ve done this a lot, it will look like a painting 🙂
3. pick another photo.
4. If large enough reduce the image to under 2” when printed. ( it’s will be so small you wont notice the problem )

that’s it. the pixel detail is gone… good bye. C ya later.

On 2006-04-05 02:52:33 -0300, "Roger Collins" said:
I have some images that while trying to sharpen I have oversharpened. The images have been closed and reopened so no opportunity to simply go back in the history palette. Would anybody have a solution for correcting my previous mistakes ? Using CS2
Thanks in advance for any help.

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Cheers
PacMan

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