Re: Sharpening 'Dickie' bird...

Maybe I'm a perfectionist but if a picture doesn't look sharp to begin with I delete it - no sense polishing a turd - and move on to sharper, better exposed and composed images with more promise. That approach saves me a lot of time in Photoshop. Sometimes I experiment with images from new equipment or new techniques but I'm usually after stuff I can submit to editors.

David, your finch image probably was reasonably sharp to start with.

BTW, what's new in Victoria with you and Rose?


At 12:43 PM 8/23/2004, you wrote:
I am far from being a PS maven but I have learned that sharpening is one of he real Error Areas.

IF a picture seems a bit soft overall I first make a duplicate layer and sharpen about 30-35%.

I do adjustments in layers too, then merge them down.

I am not good enough yet to sharpen particular areas of an image tho this can be done with layer masks. I just gotta figure out how to do that.

BUT the more you sharpen the more you create noise. Sometimes it is "good: noise cause it looks like film grain, so a digital pic can gain more "character"

Oh yeah, once you have an image you like at a size you like in 300 dpi for printing there;'s no reason not to post it to the web that size. But if you want to go 100 dpi (worried about having too large a file) I'd dupe the image in PS and (leaving it alone at 300 dpi ) resize it to the screen-sized image you want. It might look better that way. I put all my images into i-photo and then send them email -- where it defaults to 640 pixels wide-- or put them on the home page albums which seem to cause no-one any problems at the viewing end. But I like my digitalization simple.

You now have my sum total of knowledge re PS and sharpening and computer graphics, too,

Mike

Mark Bohrer
www.mountain-and-desert.com
Adventure travel and wildlife photography 


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