Moose,
Fred Miranda's actions are outstanding and I have purchased them and use
them myself, but here is another quick way to sharpen that works well and is
easy to do (in fact, I created an action out of the technique!). Copy your
image to a new layer, then apply the High Pass Filter to that layer (under
Other). I use a setting around 9 or 10, depending upon the amount of detail
in the image - less if there is a lot of detail. Finally, change the mode
of the layer to 'soft light', 'hard light', or 'overlay' and check the
results. You may adjust the opacity slider to fine-tune the sharpening
effect! Note, that this technique does not produce the halo effects that
can occur with overuse of unsharpen mask!
Jim Caldwell
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-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Moose
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 6:41 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: OM to EOS adaptor - sample pics
Well, Stephen, the experienced Can*n digital jockey, is right about
in-camera sharpening, very minimal.
So I sharpened my samples using Fred Miranda's latest Intellisharpen.
What an improvement over the very old version I had! The option to leave
the sharpening in a separate layer and adjust using the opacity slider
is wonderful. Instead of sequentially trying different levels or just
using one level for each shot, you can just move the slider to the max
sharpening before weirdness sets in. The save to web function
automatically collapses the layers.
They now seem like much better examples of what the D60 with OM mount
lenses can do. I rarely use 50mm lenses, but really like the 50/1.4 at
the 1.6x multiplication factor and took a lot of shots with it.
I've reposted the samples
<http://www.geocities.com/dreammoose/D60/index.htm>.
Moose
scharfsj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Moose,
>Canon's D-SLRs apply no sharpening "in-camera", preferring to leave
>it up the photographer as to how much sharpening to appy in
>post-production. Better to do none than too much, as you can't take
>away sharpening once it is applied. All images from Canon D-SLRs
>should be sharpened, at least a little. Depending on the image
>scaling, I apply sharpening based on output. For web, where one is
>downsampling, I apply less, for upsampling, I apply more, using Fred
>Miranda's custom D60 Sharpening action. I always sharpen after up- or
>down-sampling so as to avoid resampling sharpening artifacts.
>
>-Stephen.
>
>
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