Posted by Jack Garrett on February 26, 2009 at 12:30 PM
I've got some images here that are in need of sharpening. Has anyone used the TLR sharpening actions and what success have you had? I downloaded them but not quite sure what to do since there are several options. Other than the USM and Smart sharpen in PS, is there something else out there...fairly cheap that does a good job?
Thanks,
Jack
Posted by Brent Murphy on February 26, 2009 at 1:02 PM
Posted by John Mumaw on February 26, 2009 at 3:43 PM
I use the TLR Sharpening actions and find them to be a bit complicated myself.
Recently, Mitch posted a new action titled TLR landscape Sharpener that uses a single Smart Filter layer and is pretty simple to use and still allows you plenty of control with all of the usual benefits of sharpening on a layer. Pretty good results, too! Like most sharpening, this looks its best after a capture sharpening of the RAW file.
As a bonus, he's included a Local Contrast Enhancement step, which I find gives many (most?) images that extra bit of 'pop'.
Posted by Jack Garrett on February 26, 2009 at 9:29 PM
Thanks John and Brent...I'm gonna try them both out and keep you posted with the results.
Jack
Posted by Don Eason on February 27, 2009 at 2:55 AM
I like to use Neat Image as a sharpener for noisy or grainy scans. Once a noise profile has been created, Neat Image can apply "haloless" sharpening, even if denoising is not being applied; it ignores what it considers noise while sharpening, so noise and grain are not greatly accentuated. It is free for nonprofessional users (saving as high quality JPEG only) and modestly priced for pros.
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4 repliesThanks,
Jack
http://www.shutterfreaks.com/Actions/LMC54edgesharpen.html
Recently, Mitch posted a new action titled TLR landscape Sharpener that uses a single Smart Filter layer and is pretty simple to use and still allows you plenty of control with all of the usual benefits of sharpening on a layer. Pretty good results, too! Like most sharpening, this looks its best after a capture sharpening of the RAW file.
As a bonus, he's included a Local Contrast Enhancement step, which I find gives many (most?) images that extra bit of 'pop'.
Jack