stevemchey From United States of America, joined Feb 2009, 338 posts, RR: 0 Posted (1 year 7 months 3 weeks 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 4678 times:
Has anyone played with this new brush based sharpening method in PS CS5 yet? How does it apply to sharpening images for a.net? Could that mean the end of "Copy layer > sharpen > mask/erase parts of the new layer"? Photoshop CS5 hidden gem: Brush-based sharpening
dvincent From United States of America, joined Jan 2007, 1719 posts, RR: 12 Reply 1, posted (1 year 7 months 3 weeks 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 4640 times:
Hmm, I haven't tried that. I'll have to give it a go. I recently upgraded to CS5 at home and work.
The benefit of the layer mask method is non-destructability - you can always paint in more or less sharpening between the two. This appears to be destructive, just as if you used the paintbrush or clone tool. Again, I'll look into it and give a report.
darreno1 From United States of America, joined Jun 2010, 214 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (1 year 7 months 3 weeks 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 4600 times:
Thanks for posting! I like many others didn't even know that existed. It will surely come in handy for selective sharpening.
Hrtsfldhomeboy From Djibouti, joined Oct 2007, 62 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (1 year 7 months 3 weeks 4 days ago) and read 4377 times:
Just gave this technique a quick try.. come to find out it was already on on my CS5 and didnt even know. Yah, it introduced less grain into the image, but.. for A.net standards, it still makes too much grain. Photoshop will have to do better to give us tools so we can please the screeners.
TACA300C From Costa Rica, joined Oct 2001, 54 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (1 year 7 months 3 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 4235 times:
Quoting Hrtsfldhomeboy (Reply 4): Just gave this technique a quick try.. come to find out it was already on on my CS5 and didnt even know. Yah, it introduced less grain into the image, but.. for A.net standards, it still makes too much grain. Photoshop will have to do better to give us tools so we can please the screeners.
spencer From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2004, 1624 posts, RR: 19 Reply 6, posted (1 year 7 months 3 weeks 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 4178 times:
This may well be a new feature but ever since CS2 I have used something similar by sharpening in Lab Colour. Same sort of deal, ie mark out the area with a brush and apply sharpness. I'll definitely give this a go though, seems easier.
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granite From UK - Scotland, joined May 1999, 5542 posts, RR: 67 Reply 7, posted (1 year 7 months 3 weeks 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 4176 times:
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A lot of different sharpening methods, layers, masking, erasing etc. but I am still using the plain old Unsharp Mask in my old version of CS2 and works perfectly for me. Don't see the need to do anything else.
A lot of different sharpening methods, layers, masking, erasing etc. but I am still using the plain old Unsharp Mask in my old version of CS2 and works perfectly for me. Don't see the need to do anything else.
Yeah... I agree with you! Definitely!
It's since about a year that I've started using this technique, and I have no complaints about it!
I've also tried several other techniques suggested by some friends of mine and, just like you, I had never felt the need to have a change, but I wanted to try... and, to be honest, the best results were with my "old" technique. Maybe I'm not good to use any other sharpening workflow, so... I'm still attached to my old one!
spencer From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2004, 1624 posts, RR: 19 Reply 9, posted (1 year 7 months 3 weeks 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 4123 times:
Quoting granite (Reply 7): Don't see the need to do anything else.
Fair comment. And if it's working for you I'd stick with it. I suppose I like to experiment more than others, so I've sharpened in Lab Colour, Smart Sharpen, USM and even in Noise Reduction. I'll use layers and masks when I can though and normally apply too much first then work it back. Right now I'm just using Smart Sharpen but I will give this hidden gem a tickle later.
Spence
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granite From UK - Scotland, joined May 1999, 5542 posts, RR: 67 Reply 10, posted (1 year 7 months 3 weeks 2 days ago) and read 4084 times:
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Hi Spencer
Quoting spencer (Reply 9): And if it's working for you I'd stick with it.
Yep, everyone will have something different so whatever works for them is good. I try to use the same technique on my colour negative scans too. A lot more work but a lot more satisfaction when you get a good result.
stevemchey From United States of America, joined Feb 2009, 338 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (1 year 7 months 2 weeks 1 day ago) and read 3783 times:
While we are on the subject of sharpening... here is an interesting video from AdobeMax last week. They give a sneak peak of an Image Deblurring tool that may or may not make it into a future version of PS.
PS: The video itself is blurry, so the effect doesn't show perfectly. I hope to see a better video of this in the future.
NPeterman From United States of America, joined Apr 2009, 140 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (1 year 7 months 2 weeks 5 hours ago) and read 3719 times:
I may give this a shot just to see how the end result works. To be honest, I've never even used unsharp mask for my sharpening (probably is vastly superior to what I do anyhow) but its always interesting to see new ways of tackling an old problem.
je89_w From United States of America, joined Mar 2002, 2327 posts, RR: 10 Reply 13, posted (1 year 7 months 2 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 3690 times:
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Quoting stevemchey (Reply 11): While we are on the subject of sharpening... here is an interesting video from AdobeMax last week. They give a sneak peak of an Image Deblurring tool that may or may not make it into a future version of PS.
PS: The video itself is blurry, so the effect doesn't show perfectly. I hope to see a better video of this in the future.
Wow, that is pretty cool. Yes, would like to see a better version of the video, but it seemed like everyone was blown away.
Dehowie From Australia, joined Feb 2004, 1044 posts, RR: 38 Reply 14, posted (1 year 7 months 1 week 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 3586 times:
One of the very cool things is it's pressurevsensitive to the stylus on my Intuous stylus.
Works beautifully little pressure giving very light sharpening to heavy pressure giving lots.
Nice addition to the tool set.
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