Hi Everyone,
Just wondering what everyone uses to sharpen their images and how they rate what they use.
Photoshop, Lightroom, DPP, Aperture, Plug-in and if so which one, etc.
Thanks for your input.
Hi Everyone,
Just wondering what everyone uses to sharpen their images and how they rate what they use.
Photoshop, Lightroom, DPP, Aperture, Plug-in and if so which one, etc.
Thanks for your input.
Carmen
My Stuff:- Canon 50D l EF 28-80 f2.8-4L l EF 100-300 f4-5.6 l Canon 100mm f2.8 macro l Tokina 11-16 f2.8 l Pol. Filter l Flash l Grip l Remote l Tripod l Lightroom 2 l CS3
Constructive Critique of my photos always appreciated
Hi Carmen,
Depends for me. I always shoot raw and use DPP for the first cut as I find it does the raw stuff best. If the shot is fine in DPP I sharpen as the lsat action before I save to tiff. If I need to do some work I use PS Elements and sharpen last then save to tiff or jpeg. My issue is that PS Elements does a very poor job with display on my Dell laptop - let me stress that this is the fault of the laptop display and not the software. I am about to purchase the new iMac which will allow me to calibrate and benefit from the PS software which is very good.
Bottom line for me is I always sharpen last, so depends what software I use to process as to what I use to sharpen.
Finally, I am far from the best at PP of photos so will be interesting to hear other comments.
Hope this helps to get your thread going.
Mike
Please be honest with your Critique of my images. I may not always agree, but I will not be offended - CC assists my learning and is always appreciate
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Canon 5D3 - Gripped, EF 70-200 L IS 2.8 MkII, , 24-105 L 4 IS MkI, 580 EX II Speedlite, 2x 430 Ex II Speedlite
I mainly use lightroom but to retouch eyes and other area in portraits I move to Photoshop and work with the un-sharp mask.
Focalblade as a plugin inside Aperture.
Mark I have had a good look at Focal Blade and it looks good. Can you get sharpening that really pops? I use Lightroom 2 and find its sharpening not quite good enough. I have installed Mogrify, which works in Lightroom's Export but you can't see your results till it's all over. Very frustrating.
Another using Focalblade here - is a great plug in
Cat (aka Cathy) - Another Canon user - 400D, 18-55,75-300mm Kit Lens,50mm f1.8, Tamron 90mm f2.8 Macro, Sigma 28-70 f2.8-4 DG, Tripod and a willingness to learn
Software used: PhotoImpact, Irfanview and a lot of plugins
We don't make a photograph just with a camera, we bring to the act of photography all the books we have read, the movies we have seen, the music we have heard, the people we have loved. - Ansel Adams
Have a look at the recent posts on sharpening by ricktas.
I like high pass filter sharpening because of the control and ability to tweak at any time.
Wazza
I use High Pass Sharpening on a layer, then will mask some sections of the sharpened layer, leaving some sections sharp, and others a little softer. Sometimes an even, whole of photo sharpening doesn't work, and doing any sharpening method on a layer so you can adjust its intensity in various areas of the photo can make all the difference.
"It is one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it is another thing to make a portrait of who they are" - Paul Caponigro
Constructive Critique of my photographs is always appreciated
Nikon, etc!
RICK
My Photography