What are people doing in this area? I used to use unsharp masking in Photoshop exclusively -- sometimes with a fairly large radius (1-5 pixels) on the full-resolution image, and always with a much smaller radius, perhaps .7 or 1.1 pixels for web-resolution images. Now with CS2 I'm mostly using "smart sharpening", but not understanding it as well. I know I use smaller numbers in the dialog box :-). Do people find it easier to judge when an image for screen use is over-sharpened at 100%, or perhaps at 200% viewing size? And how do you decide how to sharpen for print? And I expanded out to Focus Magic, which can sometimes do miraculous things with clearly out-of-focus images (visible back-focus for example), and also sometimes with motion-blurred images. That's trial-and-error, and sometimes very slow (several minutes for a 10-pixel radius out-of-focus correction on a 10MP image). But the results are sometimes pretty much miraculous. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b@xxxxxxxx>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>
