Digital BW, The Print

I don't usually jump into these conversations, but, I would like to say that I found a book "Image Sharpening w/ Adobe PS, Camera Raw, and Lightroom" released by Real World books and written by Bruce Fraser and Jeff Schewe very helpful in explaining the sharpening of images!  The book is pretty technical (for me), but it seems to be on the $$$$  Give it a look, it cleared my head.
 
JC PhotoGraphics

From: pdesmidt tds.net <pdesmidt@...>
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2011 10:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Photo Kit Sharpener


  
I haven't seen any reason to use 3rd party tools. I use smart sharpen for
capture sharpening, along with masking if needed. I use high radius low
amount unsharp masking for some mid-tone contrast, perhaps with a luminosity
mask. Smart sharpen works well for creative sharpening, especially with
masks. And Smart sharpening works well for output sharpening, again
possibly with masks, faded to luminosity... You can do very controlled
sharpening with Photoshop if you spend some time investigating it.

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