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SHARPENING TECHNIQUES SHOWDOWN After receiving several follow-ups to my Silverfast Forum post on sharpening, I thought I'd try out several low- and high-tech ways to sharpen. For this test, I started with a 35mm transparency of model Beth Ann shot a few months ago by a local Atlanta photographer, Ben Cook. I choose this image because the human face is very difficult to sharpen. If you're not careful and you oversharpen, your portrait may end up looking like something from a Sci-fi movie! The scans were all made using an Epson Expression 1600 with Silverfast v5.5r06, and PhotoShop 6.01, at 1600 dpi, 36>24bit Color, using the "Standard" auto-correction. 1600 dpi was used for speed and size limitations. Higher resolution scans will benefit even more from sharpening, as there is more information (detail) to start with. The most important thing is that I didn't favor any one method, and I tried to get the very best result using each technique. I am completely unbiased - I was just simply curious to see which technique worked the best. Below are the results of my test, and the various methods and how to do them: |
