I didn't know that. Guess I'd better buy a copy of Qimage. I've been
saying I would for the past 2 years.
Chuck Norcutt
Johnny Johnson wrote:
> 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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