RE: Sharpening, and improving focus, and reducing motion blur

[Dimitri <dimitri.dpgr@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was never satisfied with any standard settings for sharpening so I started playing about and in the end used  20,50,0 setting. This is more of a contrast increase than an actual sharpening, but the end result is good.

 

(Have to confess that now I rarely use this but nik sharpener pro, which gives me the result I’m after.

 

Dimitri

 

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From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Guy Glorieux
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 4:18 AM
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
Subject: Re: Sharpening, and improving focus, and reducing motion blur

 

What a nice setting, Lea. 

 

I've been struggling a lot with the Unsharp Mask function, trying to find the right balance between the individual settings.  But playing around with three figures can be really tricky. 

 

Typically I would tend to overdo it a bit, with settings more like 90, 5.5, 6.  Then I would backtrack in the "Fade..." function.  But I've never been really satisfied with the end results.

 

I've just tried your combination on one of my picks and it seems much more effective.  Something like a more "gentle" treatment of the image. 

 

Thanks for the info.

 

Guy

 

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: lea murphy

To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students

Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 8:12 PM

Subject: Re: Sharpening, and improving focus, and reducing motion blur

 

I sharpen using Unsharp Mask in PS. My 'standard' setting for portrait work is 159, .9, 0. Everything starts here and then I move it around...but oftentimes not by much.

 

I typically have the image open at 100% with 'preview' checked so I can see the effect.

 

Just the dialog box of 'smart sharpen' was confusing to me so I never use it.

 

Lea

 

On Oct 31, 2006, at 4:34 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:

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.

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