January 09 Newsletter
Hello Raw Shooters
Happy New Year
With a brand new year come new challenges and new adventures too!
Words of wisdom from Guru Miedu can help us see the challenges more joyfully:
“Not a coercion but the sweetest gift ,our life is.”
We promised not to change the price of our services last year and this year we’re not going to increase prices either. You can still enjoy the highest quality services at the
same low price. We will, however, have a 25% increase in 2010. We wanted to give you plenty of notice when considering costs for your 2010 contracts.
At Omnilargess Services we want to thank all of you for your business, support, feedback and suggestions. We wish you a very prosperous year.
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Now for this month’s tip:
How do I sharpen an image and maintain the details?
This question has been asked several times and so it’s a good topic to start off this year’s newsletters.
There are several different ways to apply sharpness to an image. You can use sharpening tools, Smart sharpness, and Unsharp Mask. Sharpening is a big challenge when it comes to the final image quality.
Personally I don’t trust the Smart Sharpening of photo editing softwares and prefer to have more control when editing images. When working with RAW files, some editing software adds Pixel sharpness to the photos. It is the same process that happens inside a camera processor. But it is not good enough!
The best tool I recommend using is Unsharp Mask. Why it is called Unsharp Mask? Click Here to read a very good explanation of the history behind the origins of Unsharp terminology.
The fastest and easiest way I’ve found is a combination of Unsharp Mask tool and Photoshop Fade Command tool.
Here are the steps for you to try. Just a quick reminder that each image should be treated individually…I don’t recommend batch processing for this tool!
1- Open the image in Photoshop.
2- Go to Filter> Sharpen> Unsharp Mask.
3- I can’t give you the exact numbers since they vary from image to image and camera to camera. In this step you will make the photo over sharpened by increasing the Amount to 400% to 500%, set the Radius between 0.3 to 0.6, and set the Threshold between 3 to 5. The image should look awful now!
4- Go to Edit > Fade Unsharp Mask. In the dialog box check the Preview option to see the changes in real time. Keep the Mode in Normal.
5- By adjusting the Opacity you can set the right amount of sharpness to the image. It’s just like focusing the camera’s lens till you get the desired result.
Have a good first month of 2009 – we’ll see you again in February.
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All of us at Omnilargess Services wish you a very happy New year and a wonderful holiday season. We thank you for your valued business and look forward to a productive year with you again in 2009!
Happy RAW shooting,
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