On 18-12-10 12:58, gg@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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 > I think we all agree that their is not one filter that fit's all purposes. Unsharp Mask is just a name for a predefined work flow. I'm for more filters and operations that can be combined in a work flow. Geert _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
