Digital BW, The Print

Still rgb only as far as I know.  PK folks said they were working on  
a 16 bit B&W version, but guess it is still on the back burner.  I  
use the deadman sharpening actions for B&W.

On Aug 21, 2005, at 7:37 PM, Brian Ellis wrote:

>> The one thing that I love about Photokit Sharpener Pro is its ability
>> to selectively sharpen edges in only that part of the image that
>> requires the enhancement.
>>
>
> There's a sharpening method described in the tutorial section of  
> Luminous
> Landscape that does the same thing and is free. It may not be as  
> good in
> other respects as Photokit but it does do that. It also doesn't  
> require
> converting to rgb, which Photokit did when I tried it a year or so  
> ago. Does
> it still require that conversion?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ernst Dinkla" <E.Dinkla@...>
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 3:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Genuine Fractals (and Photokit Sharpener
> workflow)
>
>
> btvarner wrote:
>
>
>>
>>
>> The one thing that I love about Photokit Sharpener Pro is its ability
>> to selectively sharpen edges in only that part of the image that
>> requires the enhancement.  I guess I will try an experiment to only
>> sharpening in Photoshop/Photokit Sharpener the parts of an image that
>> require the very most attention and do absolutely no other sharpening
>> on the image.  Then open in Qimage to size and print.
>>
>>
>>
>
> That would be the way to do selective sharpening. Qimage can't as  
> far as
> I know and being essentialy a printer program it isn't intended for  
> that
> work either. If you sharpen the image selectively or entirely so it
> looks sharp on the screen then I wouldn't take the default (5) print
> sharpening of Qimage but the 2 at most.
>
> Ernst



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