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My very first Olympus mju/Stulus 300 6×4" (15x10cm) glossy prints at a local store were surprisingly good. I did a very basic tonal and color correction with Levels and minimal cropping (mainly to convert them to 3:2 aspect ratio).
What about sharpening the images before printing at a store?
I guess it is best to set the digital camera to highest jpg quality to avoid the jpg artifacts which sharpening exaggerates, right?
But at least my camera tends to have noise which even a mild Unsharp Mask makes ugly very quickly so should somehow blur the images before sharpening?
An old source recommends the following action for digital camera images: New Layer, Filter/Noise/Median 2 (or even 3), Filter/Blur/Gaussian Blur 1, Filter/Sharpen/Unsharp Mask 500/1/0, Layer Opacity to 30-50%, Layer/Merge Down. Then just before printing Unsharp Mask 200/1/0.
Some sources recommend Unsharp Mask 250/0.6/0 for detailed images and 70/2.7/4 for soft images. Is this a good amount for Photo-store printing or is this for halftone printers? And is it a good idea to somehow blur the image first?
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Matti Haveri
What about sharpening the images before printing at a store?
I guess it is best to set the digital camera to highest jpg quality to avoid the jpg artifacts which sharpening exaggerates, right?
But at least my camera tends to have noise which even a mild Unsharp Mask makes ugly very quickly so should somehow blur the images before sharpening?
An old source recommends the following action for digital camera images: New Layer, Filter/Noise/Median 2 (or even 3), Filter/Blur/Gaussian Blur 1, Filter/Sharpen/Unsharp Mask 500/1/0, Layer Opacity to 30-50%, Layer/Merge Down. Then just before printing Unsharp Mask 200/1/0.
Some sources recommend Unsharp Mask 250/0.6/0 for detailed images and 70/2.7/4 for soft images. Is this a good amount for Photo-store printing or is this for halftone printers? And is it a good idea to somehow blur the image first?
—
Matti Haveri
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