Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Keith R." <kjrslr@e...> 
wrote:
> > In his piece 'A two-pass approach to sharpening in Photoshop' 
> > [ http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/12189-1.html ]
> > Bruce Fraser acknowledges that 'sharpening should always be the last
> > step' is the conventional wisdom, but has some other suggestions.
> > 
> > Well worth reading...
> > 
> > Peter Marquis-Kyle
> > www.marquis-kyle.com.au
> 
> The artical mentioned above proved a good insight, at the time. It is 
> almost 3 years old now, and since then, Mr. Frasier, along with 
> others have, developed a workflow, which involves sharpening at 
> various places along the image workflow: computer input, creative and 
> output. 
> [ http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/20357.html ]. A very good 
> read, and a good insight as to the why "waiting till the end to 
> sharpen" may not be the best way to go. The workflow program that was 
> developed, can be read about in the aformentioned artical, and at 
> www.pixelgenious.com 
> 
> KeithR

I see the discussion on scanners is now about sharpening and which method is 
better.
I use a CanonScan FS 4000 which does only 35mm at 4000dpi and sells now for 
around $500. I use it with VueScan which allows me to do all the post processing 
manually in photoshop. Images are as sharp as I took them on film (and scanned at 
4000dpi) . I had no success with improving an image using any of the sharpening/
grain reduction software I found a demo for, I improved the grain sometimes with the 
noise filter but that has a price in itself. Worth mentioning that I'm not interested in 
imitating chemically processed prints.

Andu