A good program for sharpening

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  1. JimmyDranox

    JimmyDranox Member Site Supporter

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    I have recently tried and latter, I have bought a new program for sharpening. Franzis Sharpen:

    https://www.projects-software.com/sharpen

    Results are really impresive for me, more so that it takes very litle time. Sharpening can be made automatic, which is very quick, or manual. And one of my favorite tools in this program is ''dehaze''. The dawnside is that it makes the pictures more noisy, but this can be ajusted latter in Lightroom or other programs. Sharpen has it's own denoise tool, but I consider it not so efficient.

    Down here I will post an image comparison, between a Raw, and a Sharpen-ed, without denoise. Franzis Sharpen comparison.JPG
     

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    Bil Lacroix New Member Site Supporter

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    I have been using Noiseware, buy Imagenomic for years and could not see myself without it. Not only does it do a great job of noise reduction, but it has an excellent sharpening function
     
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    JimmyDranox Member Site Supporter

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    Good to know. I will look for it.
     
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    I'snt LR enough? Its the only sharpening tool i use
     
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    I consider that this is more powerful and, especialy, quicker.
     
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    johnsey Site Moderator Staff Member Site Supporter

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    I'd question the efficiency gain, if your using a program just for sharpening that is an extra step in the workflow to jump from program to program. It takes only a few seconds to dial in sharpening in LR.
     
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    if you have photoshop (or gimp) just turn your before and after images into layers and create a mask to show only the parts you want sharp when blending the layers.

    selective.jpg
    This example was done in gimp using the before image, cloning it to a new layer and sharpened with unsharp mask (creates less noise that most methods) then i masked only the shell and apart of its back to make it look more progressive (these are the only parts that get the sharpening effect) all up i only played around with the image for a minute.
     
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    Thank's for this advice. I will surely try this.
     
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    I have been using Piccure+ for a while, and when used carefully the results speak for themselves.
     
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    I'm trying to find a computer that can handle L-R. Laptop just cant handle it, Choking...
     
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    What sort of computer setup do you have? You ideally should have a computer with a dedicated video card as LR wants at least 1gb of Video RAM.
    You do not need a new one however, LR runs like a champ on my 2014 Macbook Pro.


    Edit: Never-mind I see we have a new thread started on this ... https://www.canonforums.com/threads/lightroom-users-help.4477/
     
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