On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 09:59:40PM -0600, Michael Torrie wrote:
> After learning a few tips at the excellent UUG meeting on thursday, I
> thought many of you might be interested in this tip on sharpening
> pictures with less noise.  If you decompose the picture into the HSV
> layers as he described last night, if you click on the "value" layer,
> you can run a sharpen or unsharpen mask operation on this layer only,
> without affecting the colors or saturation.  This will sharpen your
> image with much less noise than you would get sharpening the usual way.
>  Just recompose the image as we did last night.  You can do this
> operation as well as fixing the saturation curve before recompositing.

Interesting.  I'll have to try this.  I also read somewhere that HSV has
a better model for saturation, while HSL has a better model for
lightness.  I wonder how sharpening on the lightness layer in HSL might
compare with sharpening on the value layer in HSV.  There's lots to try.

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