Olympus-OM
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [OM] Big Sharp and Little Sharp I [was New panorama up]

Subject: Re: [OM] Big Sharp and Little Sharp I [was New panorama up]
From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 10:15:05 -0400
An excellent primer on the subject, Chuck. I am a disciple of Mr. Schewe, 
though Mr. Fraser had sloughed this mortal coil before I became aware of him. 

A company called Pixel Genius makes a superb sharpening program for Photoshop, 
which I use to good effect. It is the child of Mr. Schewe, and I believe 
Himself is customer support if you have questions about the program. It permits 
capture sharpening, sharpening for effect, and output sharpening. Many times 
the simple USM provided by LR4 is enough for me (Schewe also designed the 
sharpening in LR and ACR for Adobe), but there are times and prints when Pixel 
Genius is mandatory, especially because you can mask the hell of our certain 
areas and so sharpen sixteen different parts of the image sixteen different 
ways, if that's what you want to do. True, it takes are rally OCD photographer 
to want to do that, but it's nice to have the option. I believe my personal 
record is four sharpens to four different areas. (That includes _not_ 
sharpening the sky.)

--Bob


On Mar 31, 2013, at 8:37 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:

> I've recommended this before but, for an in-depth understanding of 
> digital image sharpening as outlined here by Moose, you should read this 
> book by the late Bruce Fraser and Jeff Schewe. 
> <http://www.amazon.com/World-Sharpening-Photoshop-Camera-Lightroom/dp/0321637550>
> 
> I don't profess to be anywhere near as good at sharpening as Moose is or 
> to take the pains of sharpening parts of the image differently under 
> masks.  But I do sharpen images differently based on size and intended 
> usage.  The best sharpening advice I've ever gotten comes from Fraser's 
> book.  It's just a rule of thumb and I use it because it's easy to remember.

-- 
_________________________________________________________________
Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus
Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/
Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
Sponsored by Tako
Impressum | Datenschutz