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RE: [Digital BW] Weird Sharpening Artifacts - Please Help

2003-11-20 by Paul D. DeRocco

> From: cschaible94111 [mailto:cschaible@...]
>
> Here's the relevant background:  all images are 35mm Tri-X scanned as
> grayscale negatives at 4000dpi, 14 bit files (with 16x resampling) on
> a Nikon 4000, with USM off (at least I think).  They are printed on
> PhotoRag on a 1280.  Until last night, I exclusively used Selenium
> PiezoTones and the plug-in, which I came to blame for the problem.
> To test that, I got some UT's from MIS and made prints using Paul's
> curves and the Epson driver:  same artifacts, except now, for the
> first time, I could see them on screen after Paul's curve had been
> applied.  Also, I have two 1280s, purchased well over a year apart,
> and the problem occurs on both of them.

If you can see it on the screen, why not post a small TIFF or JPEG crop of
the area where the problem is visible? It might be possible to figure out by
actually looking at it.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...

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