Digital BW, The Print

If you check the lists archives you will find disussions on the various
techniques. The best place to get started may be
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/high-pass-sharpening.htm

Give it a try, you'll discover for yourself what the differences can be. Try
using different blending modes, not just hard light. I personally prefer the
soft light mode as I have previously discussed.

From there download John Deadman's techniques... he has another technique on
Micheal's site as well... all very interesting.

Carolyn


> Jerry Olson wrote:
> 
>> Gary there are better sharpening tools than the USM in photoshop, you
>> should know about.
>> 
>> There's Johnny Deadman's sharpen filter, which contains the "bruce
>> fraser" sharpening filter in its folder. Both are excellent. The best
>> I've yet found is the "Boundary" Sharpen in KPT's Power Tools version
>> 6.0. Also, there's the high pass/soft light method you can use after
>> any
>> of the others that sharpens just a little more. None of these filters
>> have the artifacts you can get with the Photoshop Unsharp Mask tool if
>> 
>> you use too much of it. (Well they COULD have if you use them at too
>> high of a setting).  <SNIP>
>> 
> 
> So, they're just like USM?  They all have artifacts if used
> improperly?     ;)
> 
> Daren