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OT: Web Sharpening Action

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Posted by Guy Schmickle on January 16, 2009 at 11:46 PM
I was surfing Fred Miranda's landscape forum this afternoon when I came upon an interesting thread on image sharpening for the web. The poster has experimented with sharpening techniques based on Marc Adamus' technique and has come up with an action that has been gaining pretty good acceptance with the community over there. I downloaded it, and must admit, it has its merits so I thought I would share here. You can find the thread HERE.
Posted by Art Escobado on January 17, 2009 at 12:46 AM
Props for the find, much appreciated!
Posted by Todd Caudle on January 17, 2009 at 1:07 AM
That's VERY handy! Thanks Guy!
Posted by Paul Wegemann on January 17, 2009 at 7:55 AM
Thanks a lot, Guy! This is very cool.
Posted by Stan Rose on January 17, 2009 at 8:48 AM
Thanks, Guy!
The advantage of Marc's method is that it's fast and works for 90% of your photos. Ive been using it a couple years now, and for the 720 pixel size i use a presharpened size of between 1000-1300 pixles depending on the detail in the shot (more detail requires a larger initial size). This linked method is just a little more involved, but same basic idea.
Posted by bill meikle on January 17, 2009 at 9:07 AM
Thanks Guy, will try it out.
Posted by Erik Stensland on January 17, 2009 at 3:22 PM
Now we just need a Lightroom plug-in for it!
Posted by Bill Pelzmann on January 17, 2009 at 3:42 PM
Erik, I'm sure you are aware that Lightroom provides various levels of output sharpening for JPEGs. I'm wondering how this method compares and if it is worth the additional effort.
Has anyone done such a comparison ?
Posted by Erik Stensland on January 17, 2009 at 4:17 PM
I've played around with the different settings, but I can't get anything that really compares with the Adamus procedure. Oh well!
Posted by Kurt Bowman on January 22, 2009 at 11:11 AM
Guy, thanks for posting this. I dowloaded the action into CS3 and really like this flow.