Sharpening in Photoshop before Printing
Mar 6, 2018 18:58:36 #
Almost all tutorials on printing from Photoshop say to leave sharpening to the end -- just before printing. But some of them claim the need to tailor the sharpening to the size of the print. Can I get more detailed advice from hoggers on this? Also, the tutorials I've seen use various tools: Unsharp Mask, High Pass Filter, etc. Any tool preferences? -- and why.
Mar 7, 2018 05:41:03 #
This may help you ... Output Sharpening for Print with Topaz Detail - Presented by Hal Schmitt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1J8n3fOKPA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1J8n3fOKPA
Mar 7, 2018 09:51:00 #
TheDman
Loc: USA
ygelman wrote:
Almost all tutorials on printing from Photoshop say to leave sharpening to the end -- just before printing. But some of them claim the need to tailor the sharpening to the size of the print.
Those two things are the same.
Mar 7, 2018 17:17:34 #
TheDman wrote:
Those two things are the same.
You mean High Pass Filter is the same as Unsharp Mask??
But here are a couple of quotes from https://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-editing/sharpen-high-pass/:
"Good image sharpening means sharpening the edges around objects without sharpening anything else. What makes the High Pass filter such a powerful tool for sharpening images is that it's able to detect those edges while ignoring areas that are not an edge. "
and
"High Pass is an edge-detection filter. It looks specifically for edges in the image and highlights them. Areas that are not an edge are ignored."
From what I read about Unsharp Mask, I really don't understand what is affected. . . edges and other things??
Mar 8, 2018 16:27:59 #
1. What they are saying is. Size the photo to what size you are going to be printing, THEN sharpen. If you sharpen it at a smaller size, when you blow it up, it won't seem as sharp. If you sharpen a super large version, then reduce the size to print, it may look oversharpened and horrible.
2. No, High Pass filter and Unsharp mask are not the same. What you are thinking you read, are absolutely correct. 2 different ways. If you make the final version a smart object, you can have a lot more control with high pass sharpening, because you can keep going back and tweaking it. Lots of tutorials out there on youtube to explain the differences. Just letting you know that what you think you read is correct.
2. No, High Pass filter and Unsharp mask are not the same. What you are thinking you read, are absolutely correct. 2 different ways. If you make the final version a smart object, you can have a lot more control with high pass sharpening, because you can keep going back and tweaking it. Lots of tutorials out there on youtube to explain the differences. Just letting you know that what you think you read is correct.
Mar 9, 2018 08:57:44 #
TheDman
Loc: USA
ygelman wrote:
You mean High Pass Filter is the same as Unsharp Mask??
No, I mean saving your sharpening until the end and tailoring your sharpening to the print size are the same thing.
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