Hi everybody!
I'm surely no expert in all this...but I've read a lot and experimented just as much on the topic 'image sharpening'.
The one thing everybody seems to agree on is that sharpening is one of the most delicate procedure when manipulating images.
As for methods, software, plug-ins concerning this topic.....well....I think I could fill my HD with what I found on the www .... Of what I tried, (demos you could download, or free software), some I found acceptable, some so-so, some absolutely useless, so, I carried on using
PS USM or my good, old High Pass Filter.
It was only reading the chapter about sharpening in Katrin Eismann's book that I realized that the Custom Filter could be 1) used at all.....2) used for sharpening.
Unfortunately the best explanation about the usage of the Custom Filter I found, was the one in the
PS Help file which isn't a big help for a profane like me....but I started fiddling with it anyway and some of the results I got were quite satisfactory!
I attach a B&A example, (I hope Lisa won't mind if I used her picture!), of what I achieved in sharpening with the Custom Filter. I do hope the difference can still be seen in spite of the strong compression...
Has anyone any tip, advice, explanation about this neglected
PS Filter?