The inherent softness of most digital captures (due to the antialiasing filter) requires actual sharpening, where with film the emphasis may be on grain reduction instead. I recommend performing any major tonal correction before doing any sharpening or noise reduction, because major tonal manipulations can easily undo the sharpening or noise reduction if it's done beforehand. The goal of the first pass is to create an image that responds well to subsequent rounds of sharpening aimed at the image content, and at the output process. Optimization for the image source is dictated by two factors-the noise signature, and the amount of detail the system can record. The solution, then, is to build a multipass sharpening workflow that addresses the individual needs separately.Įach component has its own requirements, and by ignoring everything else, we can tailor each sharpening pass to address a specific issue. It's impossible to address the varying needs of the image source, the image content, and the output process in a single pass, because each imposes requirements that can contradict the others. Learn More Buy A Multipass Sharpening Workflow
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