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.
--
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