Sharping up D60 Images??

[photography By Evangelos]

I am currently useing photoshop 7.0 and was wondering if any one had any set profiles for bacth sharpining D60 jepg files. I currently record in the largest setting jepg. Any info would help thanks.

[mskad]

Hi,

Although I usually use RAW, I sometimes shoot jpeg. If you want to sharpen jpeg, you can either adapt the excellent Pekka's LS D60 action (get rid of all of the conversion related stuff and lower by 50% the sharpening amount and/or radius in the different USM steps) or use Vtie's SharpControl. If you go with SharpControl, remember to save "as TIF" if you don't want to introduce further jpeg artifacts in your sharpened images.

IMPORTANT: Set the in-camera sharpening and contrast to "low" before you take your pictures. Otherwise, your images will end up with really nasty sharpening artifacts once you're done with the post-processing.

Hope this help,
Mskad.

PS: SharpControl can be found here (http://www.applied-maths.com/paul/SharpControl.zip).

[Thomas]

mskad wrote:
If you want to sharpen jpeg, you can either adapt the excellent Pekka's LS D60 action (get rid of all of the conversion related stuff and lower by 50% the sharpening amount and/or radius in the different USM steps)

Could you please elaborate on this? I haven't created my own action yet, and I am not sure how to break apart an existing one.

Regards,

Thomas

[cardigan1979]

Hey up there,

this is just my perception. I tend to think sharpen on Photoshop 7 makes the pic look grainy. I use the unsharpen mask on filter icon.

Have a play a tell me your views.

[mskad]

Thomas wrote:

Could you please elaborate on this? I haven't created my own action yet, and I am not sure how to break apart an existing one.

Regards,

Thomas




Okay, let's try:

1 - Download Pekka's LS D60 (latest version is I think 1.02)
2 - Unzip it
3 - Load it in Photoshop: start Photoshop and select the "Action" tab in the History/Action window and then open the action menu (the ">" in the upper right corner of the action window). Click on "Load Actions" and select Pekka's file.
4 - Duplicate Pekka's "Convert + Sharpen (FAST)". To do so, select the action, drag it and drop it over the "create new action" icon at the bottom of the action window.
5 - Open the copy of Pekka's "Convert + Sharpen (FAST)" and get rid of everything that is color correction/adjustment related. Also, reduce the amount of sharpening in the different USM steps.

Although you can't break anything (you can always reload the action if you screwed it up), if you don't know what you are doing, don't do it. Also, do your experiment AT YOUR OWN RISK! If you're not sure/confident, just use SharpControl: it's an excellent sharpening tool that let you easily experiment with the different parameters.

Because I don't want to spoil/appropriate Pekka's fabulous work, I don't feel I have the right to post an adapted version of his action. Hey, after all, this guy (Pekka) made me buy my first digital camera (Canon G1)!

Mskad.

[cole]

maybe pekka could post an action for jpegs? ;)

[mskad]

Okay, I felt guilty not helping you...

Here is a simple quick and ORIGINAL photoshop action I created to sharpen D60 jpeg images. It's just a "quick and dirty" set of actions that one needs to work on and to improve, but you can use it as starting point.

You can download it here (http://home.attbi.com/~mosi/tools/Mskad_D60_Jpeg_Sharpening.atn)

WARNING and DISCLAIMER:
*** Use it at you own risk.
*** Don’t overwrite your original files.
*** Use the "low" setting for the in-camera sharpening. Otherwise, you'll get ugly artifacts and over-sharpening.
*** Only run the "D60 QUICK STRONG SHARPENING" action. The others are just sub-routines.

Have fun.

Mskad.

[photography By Evangelos]

Thanks for all your help. When I Down load all this info how do I go abought pluging it in to photoshop as an action?

[photography By Evangelos]

Were Can I down load Pakkas D60 action for LSd60 action?

[mskad]

Pekka's LS D60 1.0.2 is here:

photography-on-the.net/D60/LinearSharpen_D60_102.zip (http://photography-on-the.net/D60/LinearSharpen_D60_102.zip)

1 - download it (click on the above link).
2 - unzip it somewhere on your disk.
3 - lauch photoshop (version 6 or above).
4 - in the history/action window, click on the "actions" tab and then open the menu (click on the > at the upper right corner of this little window) and select "load actions". Select Pekka's LinearSharpen_D60_102.atn file in the folder where you unzipped the file in 2.
5 - search in this forum: Pekka put a nice tutorial for his action.


Hope this help.

Mskad.

[D60user]

Can someone help me? I can't get the sharpening action to play. It's grayed out. I am using PS 7 and I have converted the RAW file to a Tiff and opened it up and I selected one of the three choices. However, the play button in the actions is grayed out! Please help a novice out!
Thanks.