FM Action!

[yuriy156159]

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

 

[Stefan Schott]

I've been using Fred's "Intellisharpen" for some time and yesterday upgraded to the new version 3.0. It's even better than before. Great stuff.

At the same token, I find the ISOR PRO actions useless, outright harmful, and the "Stair interpolation" and "Digital Infrared" actions are a joke.
But the "Digital Velvia" saturation set is a great one, too!

Just my 0.02 $ worth.

Ciao
Stefan

 

[PixelPusher154634]

So whats the action over at FM called??

PP

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

 

[Simon-Ph]

I have his 10D CSpro and Velvia actions. They are great. Now Photoshop editing is becoming a routine:

-- Assign CSpro Low, Med, and High to F2, F3, F4 buttons respectively.
-- Assign Velvia Level 1, 2, 3, and 4 to F5, F6, F7, F8 respectively.
-- Assign Image Resize (25% downsize for web) to F9
-- Assign a framing action to F10
-- Assign save as JPEG 10 to F11
-- Assign Save as Tiff w/layers to F12

Now open a photo. Look at the photo and decide what it needs. Press a few Function buttons and each photo is done in about 1 minute. Sweeeet.

Or create a batch automation. Apply an action to every photos in the same directory and go get coffee. Sweeet.

--
Simon-Ph

 

[tcfoto]

10D CSpro, edgesharpen pro, and intellisharpen.

Site says CSpro was designed for the 10D, edgesharpen is for high iso, and intellisharpen works on everything. Anybody notice any real differences among these?

Thanks,

Ted

 

[Peter Gregg]

Why do you shoot at such weird F stops?

Are you using the P mode or do you use manual mode? I never realized using the different F stops would require the use of Low Med or High for the USM

Peter Gregg

I have his 10D CSpro and Velvia actions. They are great. Now
Photoshop editing is becoming a routine:

-- Assign CSpro Low, Med, and High to F2, F3, F4 buttons respectively.
-- Assign Velvia Level 1, 2, 3, and 4 to F5, F6, F7, F8 respectively.
-- Assign Image Resize (25% downsize for web) to F9
-- Assign a framing action to F10
-- Assign save as JPEG 10 to F11
-- Assign Save as Tiff w/layers to F12

Now open a photo. Look at the photo and decide what it needs.
Press a few Function buttons and each photo is done in about 1
minute. Sweeeet.

Or create a batch automation. Apply an action to every photos in
the same directory and go get coffee. Sweeet.

--
Simon-Ph

 

[DerekW]

I've been using Fred's "Intellisharpen" for some time and yesterday
upgraded to the new version 3.0. It's even better than before.
Great stuff.
At the same token, I find the ISOR PRO actions useless, outright
harmful, and the "Stair interpolation" and "Digital Infrared"
actions are a joke.
But the "Digital Velvia" saturation set is a great one, too!

Just my 0.02 $ worth.

Ciao
Stefan

I also tried the FM action for sharpening and found it to be a good investment. I also didn't care for the ISOPro noise removal for the 10D. FOr my money (and time), Neat IMage does an amazing job of removing noise and keeping the detail. I process RAW images with C1LE and then NeatImage for noise removal. To print, I use PS7, resize, and then sharpen with the FM tool. My prints look like 3-D pictures after that and can stand up to the best medium format prints.

I found the low and medium settings (FM) to work best.

--

DerekW - Avid wrestling photographer - Nikon D1, D1x, and now EOS 10d. PS 7.0 and C1 LE

 

[George Thompson]

Why do you shoot at such weird F stops?

Are you using the P mode or do you use manual mode? I never
realized using the different F stops would require the use of Low
Med or High for the USM

Peter,
He is referring the FUNCTION KEYS on the pc keyboard. Not F stops....

He is assigning macros to the F keys to avoid extra mouse and keyboard entries.....
GT

 

[Pixel Warp]

... his wink at the end of his writing. He was making a funny. ;-)

Why do you shoot at such weird F stops?

Are you using the P mode or do you use manual mode? I never
realized using the different F stops would require the use of Low
Med or High for the USM

Peter,
He is referring the FUNCTION KEYS on the pc keyboard. Not F stops....
He is assigning macros to the F keys to avoid extra mouse and
keyboard entries.....
GT

 

[Simon-Ph]

Maybe you can show me what to do with F16 cause my keyboard does not have a F16 button. Don't tell me to use Shift or Control, cause I hate those buttons.

Are you using the P mode or do you use manual mode? I never
realized using the different F stops would require the use of Low
Med or High for the USM

Peter Gregg

I have his 10D CSpro and Velvia actions. They are great. Now
Photoshop editing is becoming a routine:

-- Assign CSpro Low, Med, and High to F2, F3, F4 buttons respectively.
-- Assign Velvia Level 1, 2, 3, and 4 to F5, F6, F7, F8 respectively.
-- Assign Image Resize (25% downsize for web) to F9
-- Assign a framing action to F10
-- Assign save as JPEG 10 to F11
-- Assign Save as Tiff w/layers to F12

Now open a photo. Look at the photo and decide what it needs.
Press a few Function buttons and each photo is done in about 1
minute. Sweeeet.

Or create a batch automation. Apply an action to every photos in
the same directory and go get coffee. Sweeet.

--
Simon-Ph

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--
Simon-Ph

 

[George Thompson]

Why do you shoot at such weird F stops?

Are you using the P mode or do you use manual mode? I never
realized using the different F stops would require the use of Low
Med or High for the USM

Peter,
He is referring the FUNCTION KEYS on the pc keyboard. Not F stops....
He is assigning macros to the F keys to avoid extra mouse and
keyboard entries.....
GT

 

[yuriy156159]

what i bought was 10D cSpro as to what the difference between other two i dont know. He says Cspro was designed for 10D so I bought it

10D CSpro, edgesharpen pro, and intellisharpen.

Site says CSpro was designed for the 10D, edgesharpen is for high
iso, and intellisharpen works on everything. Anybody notice any
real differences among these?

Thanks,

Ted

 

[Howie Mudge]

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

Cheers

Howie

I've been using Fred's "Intellisharpen" for some time and yesterday
upgraded to the new version 3.0. It's even better than before.
Great stuff.
At the same token, I find the ISOR PRO actions useless, outright
harmful, and the "Stair interpolation" and "Digital Infrared"
actions are a joke.
But the "Digital Velvia" saturation set is a great one, too!

Just my 0.02 $ worth.

Ciao
Stefan

 

[Simon-Ph]

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

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

--
Simon-Ph

 

[Stefan Schott]

10D CSpro, edgesharpen pro, and intellisharpen.

Site says CSpro was designed for the 10D, edgesharpen is for high
iso, and intellisharpen works on everything. Anybody notice any
real differences among these?

I can confirm that Intellisharpen v. 3.0 works great on high-ISO files also. I used it last night on ISO 1600 - ISO 3200 files AFTER they'd been through NeatImage. Since v. 3.0 now has settings from 1 thru 14 I presume it will be strong enough to sharpen even 10D files. For my 1D images, I normally use 3 thru 5, rarely up to 7. So I guess Intellisharpen 3 may well be the only one you'll ever need.

Ciao
Stefan

 

[Stefan Schott]

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

You will find it under "Essential Digital Darkroom".

Ciao
Stefan

 

[tcfoto]

So I guess Intellisharpen 3 may well be the only one you'll ever
need.

Ciao
Stefan

Sure sounds that way. Might just try them both (CSpro and intelli) anyway since they are inexpensive. Curious to see how a 10D specific action differs from a more general action.

Thanks to you both.

Ted

 

[potops]

I have his 10D CSpro and Velvia actions. They are great. Now
Photoshop editing is becoming a routine:

-- Assign CSpro Low, Med, and High to F2, F3, F4 buttons respectively.
-- Assign Velvia Level 1, 2, 3, and 4 to F5, F6, F7, F8 respectively.
-- Assign Image Resize (25% downsize for web) to F9
-- Assign a framing action to F10
-- Assign save as JPEG 10 to F11
-- Assign Save as Tiff w/layers to F12

Now open a photo. Look at the photo and decide what it needs.
Press a few Function buttons and each photo is done in about 1
minute. Sweeeet.

Or create a batch automation. Apply an action to every photos in
the same directory and go get coffee. Sweeet.

--
Simon-Ph

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

Thanks in advance

Potops

 

[Dan Honemann]

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?

Dan

I've been using Fred's "Intellisharpen" for some time and yesterday
upgraded to the new version 3.0. It's even better than before.
Great stuff.
At the same token, I find the ISOR PRO actions useless, outright
harmful, and the "Stair interpolation" and "Digital Infrared"
actions are a joke.
But the "Digital Velvia" saturation set is a great one, too!

Just my 0.02 $ worth.

Ciao
Stefan

 

[yuriy156159]

I keep testing this FM Action with my 10D and it gotten even better, so here what I do now:

go to parameters and set contrast to -1, sharpness to -2 and saturaion to +2. man it works so cool! in fact I just realised that this FM Action has some little affect on contrast.
Can somebody try this setting and let me know how does it work out for you.
Thanks

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