At 01:19 PM 3/4/2008, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>2) (and this is my very rough cut summation from the book) If you're
>sharpening for a print then first, pre-size the image to the resolution
>you'll use for the print (say, 240-300 ppi) then display the image in
>your editor at roughly 25-30% and then sharpen until the screen image at
>25-30% looks just slightly "crunchy" or a bit over-sharpened. The point
>of displaying at 25-30% is to account for the significant differences in
>resolution between screen and print (say 75ppi vs 300dpi or 1:4). Then
>sharpening the screen image until it's very slightly over-sharpened is
>to account for the softening effect that will come about from laying
>dots on paper.
And the really nice thing about using Qimage for printing is that you
can sharpen for what looks right to the eye at 50% on the screen and
then Qimage will automatically add the necessary additional
sharpening, based on output size, as it sends the file to the printer.
Later,
Johnny
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