Digital BW, The Print

Ernst Dinkla writes:

> It isn't just with sharpening, there's no image manupilation
> method that will not rearrange and/or degrade the information.

Rearranging information doesn't cause anything to be lost.  However,
sharpening and many other manipulations actually destroy information;
they do not simply rearrange it.

> Fraser creates different sharpening technics for different
> phases in the process. The pain is distributed.

But you don't know what kind of sharpening to do until you know the
exact output device you'll be using.