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Peter Figen wrote:
I love it when video dudes tell you to do something without telling you why. It usually means they don't know, and probably shouldn't be doing the video in the first place.
Why WOULDN'T you use Unsharp Masking or Smart Sharpen when you have them available and use instead a sharpening method with no adjustability, but apply it twice on top of itself. Makes no sense.
Why also would you do your sharpening at 1.67 times your final resolution? Why indeed? Never a mention as to why. The only reason I can think of is that the final reduction to your final pixel dimension will soften that sharpening a bit, but why not just apply the correct amount at the final resolution?
There have been a couple of other threads about image quality on this site. It's possible that you're hitting an auto re-size feature that is hosing your files. Try a slightly smaller pixel size - more like 900 or so and see if that doesn't make a difference. ...Show more →
Wow. Sorry my video seems to have offended you to such an extent. There are dozens, if not hundreds of different sharpening methods out there and this one seems to help quite a few people. However, I'm quick to admit it's not the only way to get a good looking web image. Sorry if the video came across as my "not knowing what the hell I'm talking about."
At any rate, the reason for the double sharpening technique is that it seems to give the image more fine sharpening detail than just a straight smart sharpen or USM technique. I've experimented with a lot of methods and when I stumbled upon this double-sharpen trick it seemed to work really good. As I mention in the video, this technique was basically what evolved from my playing with lots of different types of sharpening tricks over the years. The double-sharpen technique was not something I invented, only added to the workflow.
Also, I like the look of the regular sharpen filter for this, but USM would work too.
As of the 1.67 - that 1 2/3rds size ratio seems to work best. I've tried other ratios (double, 1 1/2, 1 1/3) and the 1.67 number seems to give the best "look" to my sharpening. I'm not a software engineer, so I haven clue why that number seems to work best, I only know that after a lot of testing I like the way it looks.
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