> I find that the first sharpening, that applied > to the image from the scanner, needs much larger > strength and radius values than the second and > later sharpenings. Do you turn on sharpening in > the scanner?
No, I don't. You never know when you'll need an image _without_ sharpening (remember, sharpening degrades image quality). I don't see much change in the initial sharpening, either, unless it's a really good scan (read: a scan of an image shot on a tripod, on slow film, that really does show detail in individual pixels). Subsequent 2x downsamples always show visible improvement when sharpened, though. > I haven't tried that yet, since my experience > with in-camera sharpening (consumer dcams) is > that it has too low threshold setting and aggravates > noise something fierce, but maybe scanner sharpening > isn't so obnoxious...) I don't like to sharpen images even before I get them into Photoshop. I prefer that the raw image be free of sharpening, so that I get as much quality as possible in that raw image. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
