Digital BW, The Print

No, they give much better results than USM.

Jerry




"Daren M." wrote:
> 
> 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
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