Digital BW, The Print

I use it and have found it to be very good.  Download the fully functional
demo and let us know what you think.  They certainly go through a
significant number of steps to perform a sharpen (well beyond a simple
unsharp mask).  And the creative brushes can be quite useful.  As Carl
notes, a 16bit files in RGB can get very very large ­ mine have hit over 2Gb
before being flattened and taken back to grey scale.  Personally I have
found it better at sharpening colour slide scans than scanned B&W film but
that maybe the scan rather than the sharpening process.


From: hogarth <hogarth@snappydsl.net>
Reply-To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:21:36 -0400
To: "digitalblackandwhitetheprint@yahoogroups.com"
<digitalblackandwhitetheprint@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Sharpening vs. Print size [was: Image Density vs.
Print Size]

Well cool. I've never heard of them, but found this googling around from
your hint.:

http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/20357.html

This article pretty much sums up what I've found through trial, error,
and lots of head scratching. It says it was published last November. If
only it had been earlier, I might not have lost quite so much hair.

Anyone tried their PhotoKit Sharpener package? Is it enough better than
Photoshop's native unsharp masking tools to make it worth the money?





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