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Hi all,

I've created a Photoshop 6 action that works great for sharpening your D30 pictures without introducing halos, artifacts and noise.

It is a combination of various proven techniques like: Ultra-sharpen5 PRO plugin and channel mixer contrast enhancer.

I optimized this action for the D30. It works well with LOW sharpening or NORMAL sharpening from the D30 parameters.

Basically it works the same as Ultra-Sharpen5 PRO, but it has the following significant improvements:

1) It's a “tweakable” action (not a plugin) which means you can set whichever setting you find appropriate for your images depending on its size and/or subject.
2) It works in 16-bit or 8-bit Tiff files.
3) The edge contrast is enhanced using a Channel mixer setting.

4) It's customized for the D30 and it works well even with the default settings. Great for batching pictures.

Since this actions works similarly to Ultra-SharpenPRO 5 (with a few enhancements and optimum setting for the D30), the instructions on how to use it are almost identical. Here is the manual online:
http://www.sonic.net/webpub/ultra-sharpen/downloads/manual.pdf

Enjoy!
Any feedback welcome.

Download it here:
people.we.mediaone.net/ftmdesigns/EdgeSharpen16bit.zip

Best,
FRED
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Robert wrote:

Doesn't seem to work properly (as Ultra-Sharpen Pro). Says no pixels selected. Tried 8-bit and 16-bit. Only seems to do the last step.
View boxes are empty.....unlike USP.
FRED said:
Hi all,
I've created a Photoshop 6 action that works great for sharpening
your D30 pictures without introducing halos, artifacts and noise.
It is a combination of various proven techniques like:
Ultra-sharpen5 PRO plugin and channel mixer contrast enhancer.
I optimized this action for the D30. It works well with LOW
sharpening or NORMAL sharpening from the D30 parameters.

Basically it works the same as Ultra-Sharpen5 PRO, but it has the
following significant improvements:

1) It's a “tweakable” action (not a plugin) which means
you can set whichever setting you find appropriate for your images
depending on its size and/or subject.
2) It works in 16-bit or 8-bit Tiff files.
3) The edge contrast is enhanced using a Channel mixer setting.
4) It's customized for the D30 and it works well even with the
default settings. Great for batching pictures.

Since this actions works similarly to Ultra-SharpenPRO 5 (with a
few enhancements and optimum setting for the D30), the instructions
on how to use it are almost identical. Here is the manual online:
http://www.sonic.net/webpub/ultra-sharpen/downloads/manual.pdf

Enjoy!
Any feedback welcome.

Download it here:
people.we.mediaone.net/ftmdesigns/EdgeSharpen16bit.zip

Best,
FRED

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That's very odd Robert.
It works perfectly on my machine.
Make sure you have:
Photoshop 6.01. I haven't tested on a Mac, so I guess it will only work on PCs..
Let me know if you still get the problem. It should work better than USP.
Best,
FRED
Robert L. said:
FRED said:
Hi all,
I've created a Photoshop 6 action that works great for sharpening
your D30 pictures without introducing halos, artifacts and noise.
It is a combination of various proven techniques like:
Ultra-sharpen5 PRO plugin and channel mixer contrast enhancer.
I optimized this action for the D30. It works well with LOW
sharpening or NORMAL sharpening from the D30 parameters.

Basically it works the same as Ultra-Sharpen5 PRO, but it has the
following significant improvements:

1) It's a “tweakable” action (not a plugin) which means
you can set whichever setting you find appropriate for your images
depending on its size and/or subject.
2) It works in 16-bit or 8-bit Tiff files.
3) The edge contrast is enhanced using a Channel mixer setting.
4) It's customized for the D30 and it works well even with the
default settings. Great for batching pictures.

Since this actions works similarly to Ultra-SharpenPRO 5 (with a
few enhancements and optimum setting for the D30), the instructions
on how to use it are almost identical. Here is the manual online:
http://www.sonic.net/webpub/ultra-sharpen/downloads/manual.pdf

Enjoy!
Any feedback welcome.

Download it here:
people.we.mediaone.net/ftmdesigns/EdgeSharpen16bit.zip

Best,
FRED

--
For more images, click here:
http://www.pbase.com/galleries/positiv
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Hi FRED,

I'm having the exact same problem Robert described, i.e. view boxes are empty and no pixels are selected. I have PS 6.0.1 and am running Win98 if that makes any difference. UltraSharpen Pro 3.0 works fine. Thanks in advance for all your work.

Kurt
FRED said:
Robert L. said:
FRED said:
Hi all,
I've created a Photoshop 6 action that works great for sharpening
your D30 pictures without introducing halos, artifacts and noise.
It is a combination of various proven techniques like:
Ultra-sharpen5 PRO plugin and channel mixer contrast enhancer.
I optimized this action for the D30. It works well with LOW
sharpening or NORMAL sharpening from the D30 parameters.

Basically it works the same as Ultra-Sharpen5 PRO, but it has the
following significant improvements:

1) It's a “tweakable” action (not a plugin) which means
you can set whichever setting you find appropriate for your images
depending on its size and/or subject.
2) It works in 16-bit or 8-bit Tiff files.
3) The edge contrast is enhanced using a Channel mixer setting.
4) It's customized for the D30 and it works well even with the
default settings. Great for batching pictures.

Since this actions works similarly to Ultra-SharpenPRO 5 (with a
few enhancements and optimum setting for the D30), the instructions
on how to use it are almost identical. Here is the manual online:
http://www.sonic.net/webpub/ultra-sharpen/downloads/manual.pdf

Enjoy!
Any feedback welcome.

Download it here:
people.we.mediaone.net/ftmdesigns/EdgeSharpen16bit.zip

Best,
FRED

--
For more images, click here:
http://www.pbase.com/galleries/positiv
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Kurl,
Now that you wrote that, I'm sure something is missing.

The odd thing is that on my Photoshop 6.01 it works perfectly. I tried uninstalling Photoshop and installing again and it works everytime.

First the screen shows the edge selection with “Levels” for editing, and then it opens a “Blur” window and then another levels (just like USP). Everything is suppost to work on an image duplicate. At the end, the selected pixels are to be loaded on the 16-bit image and sharpened.
Which step are you missing?
I want to correct the action but I can't see where it could be a problem.
Anybody had success with it?
PS: I'm using windows 2000
FRED
Kurt Sonderegger said:
I'm having the exact same problem Robert described, i.e. view boxes
are empty and no pixels are selected. I have PS 6.0.1 and am
running Win98 if that makes any difference. UltraSharpen Pro 3.0
works fine. Thanks in advance for all your work.

Kurt
FRED said:
Robert L. said:
FRED said:
Hi all,
I've created a Photoshop 6 action that works great for sharpening
your D30 pictures without introducing halos, artifacts and noise.
It is a combination of various proven techniques like:
Ultra-sharpen5 PRO plugin and channel mixer contrast enhancer.
I optimized this action for the D30. It works well with LOW
sharpening or NORMAL sharpening from the D30 parameters.

Basically it works the same as Ultra-Sharpen5 PRO, but it has the
following significant improvements:

1) It's a “tweakable” action (not a plugin) which means
you can set whichever setting you find appropriate for your images
depending on its size and/or subject.
2) It works in 16-bit or 8-bit Tiff files.
3) The edge contrast is enhanced using a Channel mixer setting.
4) It's customized for the D30 and it works well even with the
default settings. Great for batching pictures.

Since this actions works similarly to Ultra-SharpenPRO 5 (with a
few enhancements and optimum setting for the D30), the instructions
on how to use it are almost identical. Here is the manual online:
http://www.sonic.net/webpub/ultra-sharpen/downloads/manual.pdf

Enjoy!
Any feedback welcome.

Download it here:
people.we.mediaone.net/ftmdesigns/EdgeSharpen16bit.zip

Best,
FRED

--
For more images, click here:
http://www.pbase.com/galleries/positiv
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FRED,

I tried stepping through the action by double-clicking on each line in the action window. It appears to me that after the duplicate layer is made from the background layer, the next step in Channel Mixer results in a totally black image. From there on out, nothing works right. Hope this helps. I'm not sure just what you are trying to achieve in Channels. Good luck.

Kurt
FRED said:
Kurl,
Now that you wrote that, I'm sure something is missing.
The odd thing is that on my Photoshop 6.01 it works perfectly. I
tried uninstalling Photoshop and installing again and it works
everytime.
First the screen shows the edge selection with “Levels”
for editing, and then it opens a “Blur” window and then
another levels (just like USP). Everything is suppost to work on an
image duplicate. At the end, the selected pixels are to be loaded
on the 16-bit image and sharpened.
Which step are you missing?
I want to correct the action but I can't see where it could be a
problem.
Anybody had success with it?
PS: I'm using windows 2000
FRED
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Kurt,

I've made a few modifications to the action, but I can't really tell you that it's going to work for you because the first one still works perfectly to me.

Here is the link:
http://people.we.mediaone.net/ftmdesigns/EdgeSharpen16bit.zip

Let me know if it works now :))
FRED
Kurt Sonderegger said:
I tried stepping through the action by double-clicking on each line
in the action window. It appears to me that after the duplicate
layer is made from the background layer, the next step in Channel
Mixer results in a totally black image. From there on out, nothing
works right. Hope this helps. I'm not sure just what you are
trying to achieve in Channels. Good luck.

Kurt
FRED said:
Kurl,
Now that you wrote that, I'm sure something is missing.
The odd thing is that on my Photoshop 6.01 it works perfectly. I
tried uninstalling Photoshop and installing again and it works
everytime.
First the screen shows the edge selection with “Levels”
for editing, and then it opens a “Blur” window and then
another levels (just like USP). Everything is suppost to work on an
image duplicate. At the end, the selected pixels are to be loaded
on the 16-bit image and sharpened.
Which step are you missing?
I want to correct the action but I can't see where it could be a
problem.
Anybody had success with it?
PS: I'm using windows 2000
FRED
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FRED,

Sorry but there is no change in the new version. It appears that in the channel mixer, no selections are being made and therefore the image remains totally black. Wish I was informed enough to help. Maybe someone with more knowledge of PS actions can offer some advice.

Kurt
FRED said:
Kurt,
I've made a few modifications to the action, but I can't really
tell you that it's going to work for you because the first one
still works perfectly to me.
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Doesn't even load on my mac. Says "mot enough Ram" I tried reloading a bunch of my old actions and they all worked.
FRED said:
Hi all,
I've created a Photoshop 6 action that works great for sharpening
your D30 pictures without introducing halos, artifacts and noise.
It is a combination of various proven techniques like:
Ultra-sharpen5 PRO plugin and channel mixer contrast enhancer.
I optimized this action for the D30. It works well with LOW
sharpening or NORMAL sharpening from the D30 parameters.

Basically it works the same as Ultra-Sharpen5 PRO, but it has the
following significant improvements:

1) It's a “tweakable” action (not a plugin) which means
you can set whichever setting you find appropriate for your images
depending on its size and/or subject.
2) It works in 16-bit or 8-bit Tiff files.
3) The edge contrast is enhanced using a Channel mixer setting.
4) It's customized for the D30 and it works well even with the
default settings. Great for batching pictures.

Since this actions works similarly to Ultra-SharpenPRO 5 (with a
few enhancements and optimum setting for the D30), the instructions
on how to use it are almost identical. Here is the manual online:
http://www.sonic.net/webpub/ultra-sharpen/downloads/manual.pdf

Enjoy!
Any feedback welcome.

Download it here:
people.we.mediaone.net/ftmdesigns/EdgeSharpen16bit.zip

Best,
FRED

--
For more images, click here:
http://www.pbase.com/galleries/positiv
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Kurt,
I rewrote the action from scratch. Same numbers.
Could you try now and let me know?
Of course on my computer all the actions worked. Go figure.

The download location is the same and the file has the same name but it's been rewritten.
http://people.we.mediaone.net/ftmdesigns/EdgeSharpen16bit.zip

Any more feedbacks?
FRED
Kurt Sonderegger said:
Kurt
FRED said:
Kurt,
I've made a few modifications to the action, but I can't really
tell you that it's going to work for you because the first one
still works perfectly to me.
Click to expand...
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Hi Fred

Now it seems to work... The old version only produced some white pics (in between)... But now, everything works fine.

Thanks for this nice action!

Reto
FRED said:
Kurt,
I rewrote the action from scratch. Same numbers.
Could you try now and let me know?
Of course on my computer all the actions worked. Go figure.
The download location is the same and the file has the same name
but it's been rewritten.
http://people.we.mediaone.net/ftmdesigns/EdgeSharpen16bit.zip

Any more feedbacks?
FRED
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Hi Fred ,

Your action ( rewritten version ) works very properly on my system .
( PS 6 .01 & Win98SE ) .
I compared with USP5.0 and I found your giving definetely better
results .
Thank you for this great tool !

Danny
FRED said:
Hi all,
I've created a Photoshop 6 action that works great for sharpening
your D30 pictures without introducing halos, artifacts and noise.
It is a combination of various proven techniques like:
Ultra-sharpen5 PRO plugin and channel mixer contrast enhancer.
I optimized this action for the D30. It works well with LOW
sharpening or NORMAL sharpening from the D30 parameters.

Basically it works the same as Ultra-Sharpen5 PRO, but it has the
following significant improvements:

1) It's a “tweakable” action (not a plugin) which means
you can set whichever setting you find appropriate for your images
depending on its size and/or subject.
2) It works in 16-bit or 8-bit Tiff files.
3) The edge contrast is enhanced using a Channel mixer setting.
4) It's customized for the D30 and it works well even with the
default settings. Great for batching pictures.

Since this actions works similarly to Ultra-SharpenPRO 5 (with a
few enhancements and optimum setting for the D30), the instructions
on how to use it are almost identical. Here is the manual online:
http://www.sonic.net/webpub/ultra-sharpen/downloads/manual.pdf

Enjoy!
Any feedback welcome.

Download it here:
people.we.mediaone.net/ftmdesigns/EdgeSharpen16bit.zip

Best,
FRED

--
For more images, click here:
http://www.pbase.com/galleries/positiv
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Holding aside the problems had by others in your first version and any negative comments by others who may be or may not be who they said they were ...

I would like to try your goodie but ...

where precisely does it go in PS6.01 -

Ultrasharpen Pro goes in the automate directory and file extensions are LI8.

Your file has an ATN file extension. The only place that I can find such like on my setup is in Vivid Test Strip\Action

So...

While it may work like Ultrasharpen Pro, it is somewhat different in installation. Please enlighten me and others who are less expert on Photoshop.
 
Robert wrote:

Thanks Fred...........working now after I loaded the new version. Running WIN98 and PS 6.01. I need to play with it a bit as I just upgraded my USP to version 5 and USP 5 Pro. Will try some comparisons! Nice action!
Baumann Reto said:
Now it seems to work... The old version only produced some white
pics (in between)... But now, everything works fine.

Thanks for this nice action!

Reto
FRED said:
Kurt,
I rewrote the action from scratch. Same numbers.
Could you try now and let me know?
Of course on my computer all the actions worked. Go figure.
The download location is the same and the file has the same name
but it's been rewritten.
http://people.we.mediaone.net/ftmdesigns/EdgeSharpen16bit.zip

Any more feedbacks?
FRED
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so can we say this is the mother of all sharpeners ?! Jus teasing... i'll give the updated action a try this evening... i hope it helps me on settling with a sharpening tool ! [is that even possible !]

thnx for all Fred

dizzynoodle
FRED said:
Hi all,
I've created a Photoshop 6 action that works great for sharpening
your D30 pictures without introducing halos, artifacts and noise.
It is a combination of various proven techniques like:
Ultra-sharpen5 PRO plugin and channel mixer contrast enhancer.
I optimized this action for the D30. It works well with LOW
sharpening or NORMAL sharpening from the D30 parameters.

Basically it works the same as Ultra-Sharpen5 PRO, but it has the
following significant improvements:

1) It's a “tweakable” action (not a plugin) which means
you can set whichever setting you find appropriate for your images
depending on its size and/or subject.
2) It works in 16-bit or 8-bit Tiff files.
3) The edge contrast is enhanced using a Channel mixer setting.
4) It's customized for the D30 and it works well even with the
default settings. Great for batching pictures.

Since this actions works similarly to Ultra-SharpenPRO 5 (with a
few enhancements and optimum setting for the D30), the instructions
on how to use it are almost identical. Here is the manual online:
http://www.sonic.net/webpub/ultra-sharpen/downloads/manual.pdf

Enjoy!
Any feedback welcome.

Download it here:
people.we.mediaone.net/ftmdesigns/EdgeSharpen16bit.zip

Best,
FRED

--
For more images, click here:
http://www.pbase.com/galleries/positiv
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Morto,
Photoshop actions have an extension "atn".
How to install it?

Open Photoshop, click on the little "triangle" right next to the "actions tab" and click on "load action...". Then browse to where you saved my action and click "load".

Automatically my action will be placed on the "actions" tab with the following "set" name:
"EdgeSharpen 16-bit".

Now to start it, import an image into Photoshop, click on the action "EdgeSharpen16bit", which is right below "EdgeSharpen 16-bit", and press Play (the little triangle at the bottom of the actions window).
From there it's pretty similar to USP5.

PS: Note that the MAIN difference between USP and this action is that my action WORKS with 16bit tiffs. Also its defaults can be customized to your taste. For example: double click on Gaussian Blur and set new defaults. Next time the action runs, it will have your customized defaults. It's great for batches.

I hope this helps.
Enjoy!
FRED
Morto said:
Holding aside the problems had by others in your first version and
any negative comments by others who may be or may not be who they
said they were ...

I would like to try your goodie but ...

where precisely does it go in PS6.01 -

Ultrasharpen Pro goes in the automate directory and file extensions
are LI8.

Your file has an ATN file extension. The only place that I can
find such like on my setup is in Vivid Test Strip\Action

So...

While it may work like Ultrasharpen Pro, it is somewhat different
in installation. Please enlighten me and others who are less
expert on Photoshop.
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Soren said:
Doesn't even load on my mac. Says "mot enough Ram" I tried
reloading a bunch of my old actions and they all worked.
Click to expand...
Soren,

Could you try downloading the action again and trying on your Mac. Since I have rewritten the action it's being working for everybody that tried. Could you try on your Mac and let me know?
Best,
The download place and name file is the same.
FRED
Member said:
FRED said:
Hi all,
I've created a Photoshop 6 action that works great for sharpening
your D30 pictures without introducing halos, artifacts and noise.
It is a combination of various proven techniques like:
Ultra-sharpen5 PRO plugin and channel mixer contrast enhancer.
I optimized this action for the D30. It works well with LOW
sharpening or NORMAL sharpening from the D30 parameters.

Basically it works the same as Ultra-Sharpen5 PRO, but it has the
following significant improvements:

1) It's a “tweakable” action (not a plugin) which means
you can set whichever setting you find appropriate for your images
depending on its size and/or subject.
2) It works in 16-bit or 8-bit Tiff files.
3) The edge contrast is enhanced using a Channel mixer setting.
4) It's customized for the D30 and it works well even with the
default settings. Great for batching pictures.

Since this actions works similarly to Ultra-SharpenPRO 5 (with a
few enhancements and optimum setting for the D30), the instructions
on how to use it are almost identical. Here is the manual online:
http://www.sonic.net/webpub/ultra-sharpen/downloads/manual.pdf

Enjoy!
Any feedback welcome.

Download it here:
people.we.mediaone.net/ftmdesigns/EdgeSharpen16bit.zip

Best,
FRED

--
For more images, click here:
http://www.pbase.com/galleries/positiv
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Tried it out on my older G3 w/45megs ram allotted but no go- got the not enough ram message.

Loaded it on my G4 with 300+megs ram allotted to Photoshop and the action works great.
Thanks FRED
 
Dave Z said:
Tried it out on my older G3 w/45megs ram allotted but no go- got
the not enough ram message.
Loaded it on my G4 with 300+megs ram allotted to Photoshop and the
action works great.
Thanks FRED
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You're welcome. I'm glad that the action works for Mac systems as well.

I mostly use a G4 at work and now I can be sure that Egdesharpen is compatible with both platforms.

My workflow has been using the Egdesharpen action to all images and then use Photoshop USM before printing or posting on the web with different settings depending on the size and subject.

I leave the RAW sharpness parameter to LOW. I've being getting excellent results.

Best,
FRED
 
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