Digital BW, The Print

When editing high bit images in photoshop CS, should I run the 
unsharp mask filter before or after converting to 8bit?  Does it 
make a difference?
Thanks, Peter.

Peter you should really check out Photokit sharpener at pixelgenius.com . It
can dramatically increase the quality of your images you sharpen at
different stages of your work flow and perform the final sharpen for the
image size and resolution. This allows you to make one master file and
output it with many sizes and printing media.

Steve

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> When editing high bit images in photoshop CS, should I run the
> unsharp mask filter before or after converting to 8bit?  Does it
> make a difference?
> Thanks, Peter.
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The best advice that I've seen is to sharpen as the last step before printing. In particular do not sharpen before resizing an image upward. There are some who believe you can do a small sharpen step after import the image into PhotoShop or some other editing program. It would be used to compensate for the slight softening of the image due to the anti-alias filter on digital cameras.
 
Don

peterzakos <peterzakos@...> wrote:

When editing high bit images in photoshop CS, should I run the 
unsharp mask filter before or after converting to 8bit?  Does it 
make a difference?
Thanks, Peter.





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