Shel had indicated that he had done some spot sharpening on the cup. At least that's my recollection. Being honest about it, the cup lettering was fairly crisp, but that comment was a way of making a gentle point about the overall softness. Too subtle, I suppose.
Jack --- Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 20, 2006, at 4:11 PM, Jack Davis wrote: > > > Excuse me, Paul and Godfrey. Godfrey, I didn't ever see your > original > > post, but this is an improvement. > > thank you.. > > > Extremely shallow DOF has to be blamed to some extent. Spot > sharpening > > on cup is noted. > > I presume you're responding to the aliasing on the mug. > > The only modification I made was a gentle nudge to the tonal balance > > with the Curves tool. No sharpening, no other work. Of course, I > worked from Shel's JPEG image which mean that it was recompressed > again when I saved it, so you are seeing an increase in artifacts > from multiple JPEG compression passes. > > Godfrey > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

