Digital BW, The Print

The reason many of us use different approaches to sharpening is because many
images do not do well with USM, even though we are fully aware of how to use
it.  My own personal opinion is that your threshold settings are too high...
but again, that's my opinion. With threshold settings higher than your
radius settings you are conteracting the radius thus making the image soft
again.

I've personally never maligned USM, it has many great uses. But to use it
with other techniques makes it all the better at times.

I've used all of Bruce's techniques with great success over the years, and a
few of my own. But find that many of the newer techniques I've run across to
be just as successful... and lead to development of more of my own
techniques.  It's all good.

Carolyn


> Jerry,
> 
> "The oft-maligned Unsharp Mask filter is capable of producing excellent
> results, but to get them, you need to
> understand how it works, and a great many people don't."  - Bruse
> Fraser
> 
> For the rest of you, this is a great article on Sharpening, the USM way.
> 
> http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/11242.html
> 
> Daren

From an earlier post:
> enter these amounts as a STARTING point - Amount 125%, Radius 0.5,
> Threshold 0.  I usually leave the radius very low (.03 - 1.0), Amount
> high (200 - 300%) and Threshold low as well (0 - 4).  I begin working
> with the Amount setting and raise it until the image looks SHARP (not
> overly sharp, though)!  It will probably be quite grainy, but we'll fix
> that with Threshold, just get the fine details that should be sharp
> sharp.  If you're having problems using only the Amount try bumping your
> radius up a little (only 0.1 - 0.3), you should be getting decent