FM Action!

John Redcorn · May 20, 2003

Not being familiar with freds sharpening actions, are they for viewing on a computer screen or for printing? If for printing how do you corelate the size of the print with the amount of sharpening? Or do you just have one level of sharpening? I use Nik sharpener which allows you to set according to size and resolution- does freds work this way?

Thanks,
John

nyri said:
Hi guys just wanna pass this around in case if somebody did not
know this.
Yesturday I downloaded an FM Action for my 10D to use in ph. 7 WOW!!
It sharpens the image so nicely with no noise increese or
artifacts. I have done some comparison FM action vs ph unsharp mask
and the differance speak of itself. And the best thing is it costs
onnly $15!!!
Now I need no worry about my 10D image softness with this FM Action
fredmiranda.com

Chris Pope · May 20, 2003

nyri said:
nyri said:

Hi guys just wanna pass this around in case if somebody did not
know this.
Yesturday I downloaded an FM Action for my 10D to use in ph. 7 WOW!!
It sharpens the image so nicely with no noise increese or
artifacts. I have done some comparison FM action vs ph unsharp mask
and the differance speak of itself. And the best thing is it costs
onnly $15!!!
Now I need no worry about my 10D image softness with this FM Action
fredmiranda.com

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PixelPusher154634 · May 20, 2003

Yea, really, what is the NAME of this action you downloaded!!!

PP

Chris Pope said:
nyri said:

nyri said:

Hi guys just wanna pass this around in case if somebody did not
know this.
Yesturday I downloaded an FM Action for my 10D to use in ph. 7 WOW!!
It sharpens the image so nicely with no noise increese or
artifacts. I have done some comparison FM action vs ph unsharp mask
and the differance speak of itself. And the best thing is it costs
onnly $15!!!
Now I need no worry about my 10D image softness with this FM Action
fredmiranda.com

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Stefan Schott · May 20, 2003

Dan Honemann said:
Stefan,

Just curious: if you're using intellisharpen for sharpening, but
don't like Fred's stair interpolation for re-sizing, what are you
using for this step?

One-step bicubic interpolation in PS withsubsequent sharpening (amount depending on output device).

Greetings
Stefan

Stefan Schott · May 20, 2003

John Redcorn said:
Not being familiar with freds sharpening actions, are they for
viewing on a computer screen or for printing? If for printing how
do you corelate the size of the print with the amount of
sharpening? Or do you just have one level of sharpening? I use Nik
sharpener which allows you to set according to size and resolution-
does freds work this way?

In Intellisharpen, you just select one out of 14 settings for strength. You can redo the harpening by going back to history state 1 and running the action again with a different setting. The beauty of v. 3.0 is that it creates a new snapshot for each result (something that my own modification of v. 2.0 had included for some time), so switching between results is easy and can be done almost instantaneously. Which one you select as a final depends on the output device - a little experience and educated judgement helps there.

Greetings
Stefan

Stefan Schott · May 20, 2003

There is the custom 10D sharpening which is located under "10D custom workflow". That's not too difficult to find now, is it?

Intellisharpen, which works well on all digital images (even scans), is located under "Essential Digital Darkroom".

Regards
Stefan

Howie Mudge · May 20, 2003

Thanks simon it was one I missed

Much appreciated

Howie

Simon-Ph said:
Howie Mudge said:

Just downloaded the Fred Miranda Intellisharpen and thinking of
getting neat image but where do you get the Digital Velvia action
from?

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Check Miranda's website again. It should be there.

--
Simon-Ph

Howie Mudge · May 20, 2003

Would you use the Bicubic interpolation first or run the intellisharpen action first?

Thanks

Howie

Stefan Schott said:
Dan Honemann said:

Stefan,

Just curious: if you're using intellisharpen for sharpening, but
don't like Fred's stair interpolation for re-sizing, what are you
using for this step?

Click to expand...

One-step bicubic interpolation in PS withsubsequent sharpening
(amount depending on output device).

Greetings
Stefan

Stefan Schott · May 20, 2003

Howie Mudge said:
Would you use the Bicubic interpolation first or run the
intellisharpen action first?

Personally I prefer to upsample first and then run the sharpening because it's in the nature of bicubic that the result is a bit on the soft side. When downsampling, like for web display, I use a standard PS-USM first (rather strong) then downsample and apply Intellisharpen to the final size.

But that's just me - there must be at least 10 different ways to achieve any given goal in Photoshop ;-)

Greetings
Stefan

BTW, here is an excellent essay on sharpening that every digital photographer should read at least once imho: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/digitalphotography/learnmore/fixit/sharpening.asp

Simon-Ph · May 20, 2003

potops said:
Can anyone tell me how to assign things to the f keys.

Thanks in advance

Potops

Double click the Action. A dialog box will popup and you can choose the function button you want.

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Simon-Ph

John Redcorn · May 21, 2003

That was what I was affraid you were going to say- basically trial and error. The problem is that the way sharpness looks on screen has nothing to do with how it will print. I use Nik Sharpener because it takes the guesswork out of it. Set a size, printer quality and resolution and it does the rest. I have no time to make tons of test prints.

John

Stefan Schott said:
John Redcorn said:

Not being familiar with freds sharpening actions, are they for
viewing on a computer screen or for printing? If for printing how
do you corelate the size of the print with the amount of
sharpening? Or do you just have one level of sharpening? I use Nik
sharpener which allows you to set according to size and resolution-
does freds work this way?

Click to expand...

In Intellisharpen, you just select one out of 14 settings for
strength. You can redo the harpening by going back to history state
1 and running the action again with a different setting. The beauty
of v. 3.0 is that it creates a new snapshot for each result
(something that my own modification of v. 2.0 had included for some
time), so switching between results is easy and can be done almost
instantaneously. Which one you select as a final depends on the
output device - a little experience and educated judgement helps
there.

Greetings
Stefan

Stefan Schott · May 21, 2003

John Redcorn said:
The problem is that the way sharpness looks on screen
has nothing to do with how it will print.

Yes, there is truth in what you say and it's especially true for CMYK offset printing. That's why I said experience helps.

FWIW, I never said Nik Sharpener was bad, it's just so that I don't have it and I'm quite happy with Intellisharpen.

Greetings
Stefan

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