Digital BW, The Print

Hello Julian,

>I'd appreciate hearing from the experienced members on the subject of 
>sharpening Grayscale images for Ink jet output. 

All of my images are grayscale and I do my sharpening in PS rather
than those other tools, so the RGB part is not an issue for me.

I usually use the default 25% in the RAW conversion of my digicam
files.  Beyond that each file is different.  Sometimes a file requires
selective sharpening, for example a landscape where I often mask out
the sky area to prevent any sharpening there.  Another example is
where certain areas that are sharpened require different % and/or
threshold settings.

I normally do any sharpening as the very last thing, but if an image
needs this kind of selective sharpening, because of the required masks
it's impractical to not save it in the image and apply it each time
it's printed.  So I usually will save a non-sharpened version in case
I ever want to go back and change it (sometimes if only 1 or 2 masks
are involved, I'll save the selections and not save the sharpening,
but this increases file size dramatically).  I keep detailed notes of
the work imbedded in the file with the memo tool so I'll know what I did.

I don't have any set procedures that are applied the same to all
images.  I hope this helps.

Regards,
Clayton


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