Digital BW, The Print

Carl,  I downloaded both of his sharpeners and have been comparing them to each other.  I really like his Sharpener set also (has 4 actions to choose from).  I was surprised how much control they gave me--and are easily usable with masking on duplicate layers and his Bruce Fraser set is really quite nice (and of course, that is what PK Sharpener is based on to a great degree, isn't it??).  Thanks so much for this link.  I'm very pleased with them.  Using them with the gray-lab profile and adjusting to suit me in that profile, then sharpening is probably the workflow I'll refine.  Ah, yes, also much faster than using PK Sharpener. 

Diane
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Carl Schofield 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 9:37 AM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Photokit sharpener and B&W


  Deadman's custom sharpener is an action that will operate on 16 bit 
  gray files in Photoshop CS.  I also have PK sharpener but using it with 
  16 bit gray scans of 4x5 negatives that are converted to RGB produces 
  very large file sizes (2 gb+) that really slows my system down (iMac 
  G5, 2 gb ram).  I like Deadman's custom sharpener because I can stay in 
  16 bit gray mode and also it is very fast compared to PK.

  On Mar 10, 2005, at 8:49 AM, Francis Ford wrote:

  >
  > What is Deadman's custom sharpener? Will it work in a
  > mac?I just got  PK sharpening but have not worked with
  > it much yet.I don't mind working in RGB foe
  > B&W.Francis Ford
  > --- Carl Schofield <scho@...> wrote:
  >> I use Deadman's custom sharpener for sharpening 16
  >> bit grayscale scans.
  >>   Results are as good as PK sharpening, but without
  >> the inconvenience of
  >> converting to RGB and the enormous file sizes.
  >>
  >> http://www.pinkheadedbug.com/links.html
  >>
  >> Carl Schofield
  >>
  >> On Mar 8, 2005, at 11:03 PM, aaashapiro wrote:
  >>
  >>>
  >>>
  >>> Photokit sharpener works only on RGB images. So
  >> what is the best way
  >>> to apply it for black and white images?
  >>>
  >>> One could scan in greyscale, then change mode to
  >> RGB, apply capture
  >>> sharpening and then do all adjustments and finally
  >> output sharpening
  >>> and then, before printing, convert back to
  >> greyscale.
  >>>
  >>> Or, one could scan in RGB, capture sharpen,
  >> convert to black and
  >>> white through desaturation or channel mixer but
  >> keep in RGB until
  >>> all adjustments are made, then output sharpen,
  >> convert to greyscale
  >>> and print.
  >>>
  >>> With digital camera capture one could follow the
  >> latter procedure
  >>> after converting the raw file in rgb, or one could
  >> desaturate
  >>> (presuming Adobe Capture Raw)prior to converting
  >> and then capture
  >>> sharpen etc. with, again, the last step before
  >> printing being the
  >>> conversion to greyscale.
  >>>
  >>> What workflows do people use? Have I omitted some
  >> possibilities?
  >>



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