chriswade From United Kingdom, joined Oct 2012, 75 posts, RR: 0 Posted (5 months 4 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 689 times:
Ive recently started uploading to A.net and had a few get through with not many attempts. One of my main rejections is over-sharpening. The only thing is ive had ones rejected recently that were sharpened way less than ones that have been accepted and on some of the pictures i can not see how they look over sharpened at all. Is this just inconsistency in screeners? Also i know everyone is different but what settings do you roughly use when sharpening as not to over sharpen?.
eskillawl From Sweden, joined Jan 2012, 73 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (5 months 4 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 673 times:
Hi, is it possible for you to post a example photo that been rejected for over-sharpening? In Photoshop CS5 I often use both Smart Sharpen and Un-sharp mask. After I've done that, and if i found it quite over-sharp, I duplicate the layer and unselect the original layer. Then I start to rob out the letters and everything that looks over sharp. Then I just flatterna the layers and the picture looks better. Good luck!
/ Eskil
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eskillawl From Sweden, joined Jan 2012, 73 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (5 months 4 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 631 times:
Chriswade, I don't find that picture over-sharped at all. Maybe a little little on the engines and the a/c regestration. Try to do as I said in my earlier post. " I duplicate the layer and unselect the original layer. Then I start to rob out the letters and everything that looks over sharp. Then I just flatterna the layers and the picture looks better. "
Eskil
Photo equipment: Canon EOS 60D | Canon 70-300 1:4-5:6 IS USM | Canon 28-90 1:4-5:6 | Canon 18-55 3:5-5:6 |
dlednicer From United States of America, joined May 2005, 506 posts, RR: 6 Reply 4, posted (5 months 4 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 627 times:
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Look at the edges where there is black (shadow) next to the sky - you will see jagged edges. This is evidence of oversharpening. I never sharpen the edges of shadows and am very careful about any place where there is high contrast.
You can fix this image by putting a lasso around these regions and then do a .3 Gaussian blur, followed by a 50,.3,0 unsharpen mask.
kukkudrill From Malta, joined Dec 2004, 1122 posts, RR: 5 Reply 5, posted (5 months 4 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 625 times:
I agree this does look oversharpened. There is a white outline surrounding all the parts of the aircraft that are in shadow, and the titles on the fuselage and tail also look a bit oversharpened to me. What exactly did you do by way of sharpening? Do you shoot raw or jpeg? Do you have in-camera sharpening turned on by any chance?
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dlowwa From Canada, joined Apr 2005, 7247 posts, RR: 32 Reply 8, posted (5 months 4 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 556 times:
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Quoting dazbo5 (Reply 7): Sharpening should be the last thing you do before saving the final photo. Don't sharpen before you resize.
Not necessarily. For your particular workflow that may be best, but perhaps not so for others. I do all of my sharpening before resizing, and I've had only one rejection related to sharpening in the past two years, so I must be doing something right.
I've experimented with sharpening and workflows and everything I've tried, sharpening before resizing has generally lead to jaggies or oversharp look to photos.
I suppose it's down to the individual to find what works for them.
Darren
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JGreg From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2005, 36 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (5 months 4 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 541 times:
Chris
I'm using Photoshop and I use the sharpening method suggested in the editing guide on this site - with three successive passes on separate layers of 50, 0.3, 0 and then rub out any areas which have ended up too sharp. I have a reasonable record on oversharp/soft rejections (helped by a few appeals recently!!) so it must be a fairly reliable method.
The other thing you need to be careful of is how much sharpening the camera itself is applying before you even start editing, even if you are starting from the RAW file. My Canon produces RAW files in a range of 'picture styles' which have different levels of sharpness and other adjustments already made, and it pays to either use a 'neutral' picture style or to reduce the amount of sharpening using the slider control in the RAW plug-in before you then start applying USM yourself. If you are editing from jpegs, then you don't have the options of doing this and it is easy to then end up with an oversharp photo even if you haven't applied much sharpening yourself.
Hope that helps.
John
dlowwa From Canada, joined Apr 2005, 7247 posts, RR: 32 Reply 12, posted (5 months 4 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 535 times:
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Quoting dazbo5 (Reply 10): I suppose it's down to the individual to find what works for them.
That's what I was trying to say; there is no one best way to do things. It's a good idea to take all the advice you can gather, try different techniques, and end up using whatever works best for you.
kukkudrill From Malta, joined Dec 2004, 1122 posts, RR: 5 Reply 14, posted (5 months 4 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 515 times:
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Quoting JGreg (Reply 11): and then rub out any areas which have ended up too sharp
is particularly important. There is no magic formula to apply the optimal amount of sharpening all at one go. You will end up either with some parts of the photo looking oversharpened or some parts looking soft. The answer is to sharpen selectively using layers.
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