Alan, I am glad that my "persistance" in sharing the knowledge did
something better than annoying the recepient. :-)
Please excuse me for two more hints related to sharpening in
Camera Raw tool that you might find useful with noisy images:
In the same Camera Raw, try playing with "Clarity" slider - it will
sharpen the appearance of the images where needed. (I haven't used it in
Camera Raw recently, but under LR, numbers in 20-30s are reasonable on
many photos, and I just took a look, it seems very similar in Camera Raw)
From what I understand, this slider does equivalent job to the "unsharpen"
sharpening filter in PS.
Also, for the "high noise" photos, I use sharpening tool in LR (again, it
is the same as in Camera Raw, under "Detail" tab), with choosing Masking
such that the details are not sharpened.
My workflow in that is as follows:
1. While holding Alt key (Option on Mac), move the slider "Radius" to
see which details become visible. (Depending on the photo, you might just
leave it at the "default" 1.0.)
2. While holding Alt key (Option on Mac), move "Masking" slider to see which
elements will be sharpened. Move it to the position where noise is not,
and only the desired details (sometimes only the "main" contours) remain
in that edge preview).
3. While holding Alt key (Option on MAc), move the Amount slider to the
position where image details do not go unnatural. (In this "masked"
scenario, I frequently bring that Amount to 50s-60s.)
This type of sharpening highlights just the "right" edges that you choose
in 2 without amplifying the noise. While it is not about your recent image
in question, but this type of sharpening helps when the image has
less-than-perfect focus.
Hope that helps,
Igor
Alan C Wed, 16 Nov 2016 19:33:35 -0800 wrote:
Thanks Igor. You taught me something there. It works like a charm. I'll
have to try reprocessing some of my older shots.
Alan C
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