Re: filmscanners: Vuescan sharpening ( reflection on sharpening in general)

[Erik Kaffehr <Erik.Kaffehr@swipnet.se>]

Hi!

This is not really about sharpening in vuescan, but a reflection on 
sharpening in general. 

1) Sharpening should be done before retouching the image, because sharpening 
causes many details to show up which have to be retouched.

2) Scanning itself introduces some unsharpness, I think it may be reasonable 
to apply some sharpening early in the process to compensate for this.

Looking forwards to comments, but please no flame war :-)

Regards

Erik Kaffehr
On Sunday 18 March 2001 14:44, you wrote:
> It's generally advised that sharpening should be the final step on a
> file before printing or publication, but Vuescan, like most scanning
> software, has a sharpen filter.
>
> Since I always end up doing some work in Photoshop I never use
> sharpen filters in scanning software. However, I'm curious: just how
> much "damage" does the Vuescan filter do to the image? Since the
> amount is fixed, I assume the effect is less noticeable on larger
> files.
>
> Jeremy Nicholl

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