Bob, That has been refined and is now being sold as a commercial application by Pixel Genius called Photokit Sharpener.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> 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 > > > --- > Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.622 / Virus Database: 400 - Release Date: 3/13/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.622 / Virus Database: 400 - Release Date: 3/13/2004 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body