Just curious if anyone has tried Sharplet. I was looking at the latest
Fractalius from Redfield Plugins and noticed there is a Freeware plugin called
Sharplet:
"...No halo effect, no excessive grain or noise, no excessive contrast.
Extremely easy to use. ..."
<https://www.redfieldplugins.com/Downloads.htm>https://www.redfieldplugins.com
WayneS
At 3/15/2019 12:36 AM, you wrote:
>On 3/14/2019 9:16 PM, Wayne Shumaker wrote:
>>In Ctein's latest occasional news letter
>
>Huh, haven't received mine yet.
>
>>it praises Topaz Labs Sharpen AI.
>
>In the last newsletter, he was teasing about AI Clear. Recently, he told how
>much he is liking AI Gigapixel, but that he hadn't yet tried out AI Sharpen.
>Guess he has now done so.
>
>I've also tried out all of those. After a couple of test comparisons, I bought
>AI Sharpen, even cheaper, as an upgrade to their earlier sharpening product.
>
>So far, it's seems to me that their AI products are good, sometimes like
>magic, except when they aren't. Unlike the tools we have been used to, they
>rely on machine learning from many sample images. When used on a subject that
>fits into their training/experience, they are good to amazing. When they get
>their guess as to how to handle it cross-ways, it can be strange.
>
>I posted this shot of an Asian Falcon, enlarged with AI Gigapixel before.
><http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/tech/TopazAI_Gigapixel/AsianFalcon.htm>
>
>I've just been working on a version sharpened with AI Sharpen before
>up-sampling.
>
>So far, AI Clear has been the most hit or miss of them.
>
>>He says, when it work, it works very well. When if fails it fails badly, but
>>he says you can just mask those areas of the photo.
>
>Yup, that's what I'd do.
>
>H. I. Moose
>
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