Digital BW, The Print

Daniel Staver wrote:



> S-spline appeared to sharpen the grain too much.

Photozoom Pro applies USM to an s spline resampled image by default. 
This can be turned off, and should be. The effect of the default USM 
settings on film grain are rather extreme. That said, I've not processed 
more than a few film images with the program; it is possible that s 
spline without USM is just not a good match with certain grain 
characteristics.


> It has a function to add artifical detail, but I'm not sure how useful it
> is.

Not useful, in my opinion. I've never seen an image that was improved 
thereby. I've tried the feature out quite extensively; it ranges from 
doing nothing obvious to the image, to adding all kinds of 
noisy-looking, high frequency "detail" that certainly doesn't seem to 
improve a print. Perhaps I should find out what the manual says the 
feature is for....

-- 
Jeff Medkeff
Eagle River, Alaska