On 17/12/10 20:23, Liam R E Quin wrote: > On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 09:35 +1100, Jan Smith wrote: >> Hi, >> >> What are the best GIMP tools for sharpening? >> >> Is there a time when someone would use Sharpen instead of Unsharp Mask? To >> me GIMP's Unsharp Mask has a better range and control. > > For example, after down-scaling an image, sharpen of 20% can work well. > Unsharp tends to introduce artifacts if overdone. Yes, I recently had an image, badly lit photo of a page of text that was difficult to improve with unsharp. Basic sharpen worked better. Unsharp is not always the better filter. /gg > > After scanning a greyscale engraving I sometimes do a gaussian blur > followed by a sharpen at 80% or so. THis works better than > colours->threshold if you're going to scale down the image. > >> Will Wavelet Sharpen be included in GIMP 2.8? I find the Luminance setting >> gives even better results than Unsharp Mask. > > Which one are you using? It's not so much the goal to reduce the > number of plugins as to get rid of bad ones and replace them > with better ones.. > > Liam > > > _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
