Digital BW, The Print

C,
For someone who is worried about the depth and quality of their knowledge, the below was pretty intense.

I have to say, none of it really made that much sense to me...Too heavy.  Eventually I'll be up to speed.

H


Carolyn Frayn wrote:

> Todd wrote:
> > I dupe my background layer and sharpen my duped layer to the largest extent
> > I'd need , then just decrease the opacity of the sharpened layer to be
> > appropriate for smaller sizes. It works well for me as I don't resample my
> > file for smaller print sizes, I just send it all along to the print driver,
> > which has no problem processing it. Thus scan once, manipulate once, sharpen
> > once, print many sizes...
>
> Todd, interesting idea... I do a similiar thing to a duplicate layer in
> order to sharpen selected areas of the underlying image layer by masking the
> sharpened layer where required and then playing with the opacity.
>
> You are sending the same file size to the printer at different print
> sizes... what is the dpi of your smaller print file sizes? Do you ever find
> anything unfavorable in your smaller images?  I've always thought that if
> you send to much info to the print driver it does not handle the
> downsampling as well as photoshop would.
>
> > PS, I'm getting good sharpening results using some of Johnny Deadman's
> > "smart sharpener" actions. They're free and very effective. I don't have a
> > link handy but I'd check his site (pinkheadedbug.com) or do a web search.
> > Most of these sharpeners (he offers a few, are based upon sharpening edges
> > to a greater extent than flat tones, much like Bruce Fraser's two pass
> > approach, or UltraSharpen.
>
> Deke McClelland also has an edge mask technique that I find works well with
> some images.
>
> I also really like the highpass sharpening technique only I use soft light
> as the blend mode as it is much more subtle. John Brownlow's (Deadman) Smart
> Sharpening is also great... each image warrants it's own technique. Both of
> the above are available on the Luminous-Landscape site.
>
> Carolyn
>
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