Unsharp Mask setting

[getg3]

Hi All,
What is your normal USM setting? Most of the time I use this combination:

Amount: 500%
Radius: 0.2 pixels
Threshold: 2 levels

[Stuart Elflett]

My starting point is 150%, .7, 3... and then I play from there - although since finding a good sharpening action I haven't really bothered with USM much since...

Cheers,
Stuart

[SuperNaturalPhotographer]

Stuart, can you point me to the url/thread that talks about this action?

Thanks.

Peter

[Stuart Elflett]

It's amongst the actions I picked up from 'Lings Things', which also supplies an action front end for Photoshop Elements II, my weapon of choice...

http://www.geocities.com/rnlnero/PE2stuff2.html

Cheers,
Stuart

[getg3]

It's amongst the actions I picked up from 'Lings Things', which also supplies an action front end for Photoshop Elements II, my weapon of choice...

http://www.geocities.com/rnlnero/PE2stuff2.html

Cheers,
Stuart

Stuart,
Thanks for the link. I tried one of the actions "RBS Sharpen". It works pretty good. Woohoo!

[snooze4592]

I've been using
400%
0.2 pixels
Threshold 1 level

[SuperNaturalPhotographer]

Stuart, any idea of how that action works?

My settings are
75%
1 pixel (this is minimum for PhotoPaint)
Threshold 0

Peter

[Stuart Elflett]

There are a couple I use regularly, one of them, in the 10D worktools, selects areas with consistent tonal range in red, green and blue and does a blur routine to bring everything to the same tone, and then does an advanced edge selection on each colour channel too, using those to sharpen the appropriate areas, then pumps a little saturation in - works like an absolute dream and the noise reduction is right up there with digital GEM from Applied Science Fiction... the really nice thing of the 10D worktools noise reduction/sharpen/saturate action is it leaves a before and after as well as the original...

The other automates a 'true' unsharp mask, by making a blurry copy of the image and using it to sharpen the image underneath...

Cheers,
Stuart