Hi Joe, There are numerous ways to sharpen, and while I cannot advise on them all, what seems to work well, using various techniques, is selective sharpening. So, for example, you could sharpen the foliage on the wall but not the white flower, or you could sharpen the wall to a different degree than the foliage, and so on.
What I think is really unimportant. That the subject gets opened further for discussion is more important, and frankly, more interesting. In photoshop alone, for example, there are numerous sharpening methods, all of which can be used on selected areas to varying degrees. I believe that your image can be sharpened very well using the high pass filter, the unsharp mask filter, and the sharpening brush, and using layers and possibly some masking. In the FWIW department, rarely will I sharpen an entire image. In a portrait, for example, only the face, or certain portions of the face may be sharpened, and different areas to different degrees. I may not sharpen the sky or water in a landscape, but may sharpen bushes, trees, or rocks, and those in the foreground to a different degree than those further in the background. Anyway, you get the idea. Shel > [Original Message] > From: Joseph Tainter > Thanks to everyone who commented. Some thought it was okay soft, while > Shel didn't like it that way. That's fine. I tried minimal sharpening in > nik sharpener, but that mainly popped out the little white flowers on > the hanging foliage, which I thought was distracting. Some images just > don't seem to sharpen well.
