Photoshop 7

For those of you who use Photoshop and the unsharpen mask tool, what do you have your set at?

[not knowing your familiarity with photo editing some preliminary remark:]
There are no such things as set values in Photoshop. The aesthetics, the picture itself, the intended use make a big difference what to do.

...but I find myself giving rarely any higher amount than 100-130%, and radius higher than 2,5 pixels. Mostly something like 80% and 1,6px.
It's important to find the right point of threshold: having too small threshold and you end up destroying the skin or other smooth areas, having too high and you get nothing done. Something like 8-18 levels will do for many pictures.

After having applied unsharp mask one needs to fade the effect either for whole image (fade-command and some percentage like 75), or with the History tool (eg. to blur the background)).

Trust your eye and consult your friend - and the output device

In the G forum?

It totally varies with the image. To say there's a "setting" for sharpening is like saying there's an aperture for photography.

Thanks guys, I understand that there is no real setting or really one that works for all, but for my 20d files, most of the time, a setting of amount 300%, radius .3 and threshold at zero worked great. Just wondering if anyone had such a starting point as that.

I see that kind of settings working very similarly to the basic Sharpen command and as an other way to perform a basic overall sharpening. But works for that purpose, of course.

I haven't done any comparisons and I'd like to hear when does it give clear advantage over Sharpen command.

PS. sorry if we should be talking about this in some other lounge