>There is a current wisdom among many including some industry gurus that >because of the points you make regarding captures by scanners (and I might >add digital cameras), it is beneficial to apply slight sharpening to an >image prior to doing any editing of the image, additional sharpening at the >end of the editing stage with focus on local sharpening, and final >sharpening of the overall image prior to outputting. This does represent a >sea change from the all-at-once prior to printing advice that use to be in >fashion in the golden days of digital's youth.
Bruce Fraser wrote an article on this three-step sharpening workflow for Creativepro. In the first stage he employs an interesting use of layer blending options to limit the extremes in capture sharpening. www.creativepro.com/story/feature/20357.html?cprose=4-44 Bob Shomler www.shomler.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body