Digital BW, The Print

finally got a chance to look the these article about 3D/2D effects in 
digital  imaging. Well, the second article seems to be a sales pitch 
for a plug-in that helps make images more 3D. Well if you look at the 
examples, I dont see it as really working. All it seems to do is 
sharpen. It actually makes the image MORE like paper dolls cut out of 
paper and laid over a back ground. Normally I see this only on the 
paper print, and with some papers way more than others. With this plug, 
I see the effect even on the screen. Look at the water reflections. 
they dont seem at all to be in the same focal plane. Plus the birds 
simply look way better before they were sharpened. Especially on the 
edges againts the water.
I think that either the 2d effect is caused by too much sharpening, or 
too big a radius, or it's caused by the paper. Maybe the surface of the 
paper. I noticed when I made some prints with the costco gloss, that 
the prints had way more depth and 3d effect than photo rag. But then I 
made prints with Velvet fine art that had better depth than photo rag, 
so it's not a gloss vs matte thing. My images are taken with a Minolta 
A1, and maybe that is the problem. I am getting my Minolta maxxum 7D in 
a few days, and I am going to try some real nice lenses to see if that 
is it also.
Right now I think it is the paper though.
Does anyone else have this bug-a-boo? Doug M
On Dec 5, 2004, at 3:22 PM, Avery Minor wrote:

> You might want to check the following article on sharpening and the 
> jump to
>  the article on final sharpening in Qimage:
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> http://www.steves-digicams.com/techcorner/tc_index.html
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> http://www.outbackphoto.com/dp_essentials/dp_essentials_05/essay.html
>
>  In the second article notice how sharpening makes the flat 2D image 
> appear
>  3D.
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>  Hope this info is useful.
>
>  Avery
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