Making very slight sharpening adjustments
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 8:49 am
This is probably difficult to discuss without an actual image on display, but I'll try this anyway...I spent quite a while during my first sessions with FocalBlade trying to get the settings optimized, but knew that of course you just can't tell from the screen image -- since inkjet dots on paper are so much different from pixels on the screen. Viewed on-screen, an apparently over-sharpened image might be just right in the print...
It looks to me as if I did oversharpen the image a bit. It's hard to tell considering the particular subject-matter, but I'm seeing what look like unnaturally slightly jagged edges in very thin lines. The lines appear to be breaking up a bit, that is. But the rest of the image looks ok to me.
In a case like this, if you were to select "undo" and then go back to FocalBlade to make a very slight adjustment in the previous settings, with the intent being to reduce sharpening only in the finest detail: what would be the best approach, to start with? Which setting, that is, would you recommend trying to change first? As mentioned in a previous message, I'm not seeing obvious results yet from changes in the mask, so I'd guess changing some other setting would be a better approach. Whatever the setting is I wouldn't want to change much of anything else in the image (the surface areas look fine, for instance).
It looks to me as if I did oversharpen the image a bit. It's hard to tell considering the particular subject-matter, but I'm seeing what look like unnaturally slightly jagged edges in very thin lines. The lines appear to be breaking up a bit, that is. But the rest of the image looks ok to me.
In a case like this, if you were to select "undo" and then go back to FocalBlade to make a very slight adjustment in the previous settings, with the intent being to reduce sharpening only in the finest detail: what would be the best approach, to start with? Which setting, that is, would you recommend trying to change first? As mentioned in a previous message, I'm not seeing obvious results yet from changes in the mask, so I'd guess changing some other setting would be a better approach. Whatever the setting is I wouldn't want to change much of anything else in the image (the surface areas look fine, for instance).