Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >Wow, are you speaking of USM or Smart Sharpening? > >With the DS bodies, I have almost never applied more than 80-90% >sharpening with Smart Sharpening. More than that causes artifacts and >problems in most photos. A very few have required pounding up the >sharpening to "crunchy" for a print.
Like Godfrey, I've also made the transition to the "Smart Sharpen" tool for most of my work. Trouble (for most people) is, it's even more esoteric than the unsharp mask tool, which is difficult enough to get a handle on. But both tools' use varies a lot depending on both image content (the amount and spatial frequency of fine detail) and intended purpose of the sharpening (basic sharpening, creative sharpening, print output or web display), so the number if "correct" settings is almost infinite. Here's a good article on sharpening in Photoshop by Bruce Fraser (yes, *that* Bruce Fraser): http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/20357-1.html It seems to be fairly old - that is, it looks as if it pre-dates the Smart Sharpen filter, but it's still very useful information. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
