Sharpening Tutorial

[matty]

Please be upstanding ladeeez and gentlemen for Bachs, who has once again written a very thought out and well constructed article on Sharpening in its farious forms, the full article can be found

http://forums.talkphotography.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7409

Once again, many thanks to Steve (Bachs) for letting us use this, please all of you have a look at it, its very good!:thumb:

[Gandhi]

very good. very helpful to me as there were a few sharpening methods I didn't know about!

thanks!

[DaveG]

Looks really useful. Thanks Bachs

[Steve]

Another great and accurate tutorial Bachs.

Thank you very much for putting in the effort and then allowing us to share it with our members.

[Bachs]

Thanks guys and thanks Team for sticking it on the front page.

I've been criticised many times elsewhere (everywhere actually :icon_eek: ) for having a tendency to oversharpen so I did quite a lot of research on the subject and came up with a couple of fine-tuned methods.

Selective sharpening is the way to go for me, especially edge sharpening and there's no better way of re-enforcing your own knowledge on a subject than trying to explain it to someone else.

One thing I can't stress enough is do it in a duplicate layer which you can bin or at least adjust opacity on to lessen the effect if you overdo it.

My favourite of the bunch is 'High Pass' sharpening as I can 'paint out' areas I don't want to sharpen.

I hope it is of much use to peeps as it has been to me, I've rescued many a 'binner' with combinations of the techniques :icon_cool

[Keltic Ice Man]

Matty do you have an updated URL for this tutorial?

Thanks

Allan

[Bachs]

The tutorial was on the front end which has now gone, but I just found the original html files I sent to the team.

I'm ftp'ing them now and PM'ing Matty with the download link. ;)

In the short term you can view it on my hosting here:

http://www.steve-perks.com/gfx/tpfsharpening/

or download the zipped files to your hard drive here:

http://www.steve-perks.com/gfx/tpfsharpening.zip

[matty]

i will turn it into a thread for you guys, got a few of these to do

[Keltic Ice Man]

Cheers Bachs and Matty :)

[matty]

sorted.

Thanks to Bachs, have a quick check on it matey and make sure i havent goosed it!

[Bachs]

Perfick :thumbs: