Digital BW, The Print

I agree...that's where I will use either FM (if I'm ok with flattening the
image at that point - I usually set black point and levels before I do
anything else) or USM if I don't like what FM gives me, or need to hang on
to my layers. Or, if I'm doing a brightly colors image I might use the high
pass method. I usually reserve NIK for the final sharpening after the image
has been sized for output, but might use another if I don't like NIK. I
think my point is that you really need to have more than one trick up your
sleeve and use what looks best...I'll have to check out Photokit - hadn't
heard of that one before this thread...

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Kale [mailto:stevekale@...] 
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 12:05 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: NIK SHARPENER, or Fred Miranda???!!!!!



Photokit Sharperner Pro works in 16bit.  The issue with a sharpening kit
that doesn't work in 16 bit is that you have to convert to 8 bit to do your
capture sharpening - before your colour/image adjustments and resizing to
print size.  Clearly not a satisfactory situation.