Free Sharpening Scripts for PhotoShop CS/CS2

jfrancho wrote:
Mitch,
Just want to say THANK YOU!!: http://plan-b.smugmug.com/photos/2​9641582-L.jpg

You're welcome!

Nice, sharp image. Well done!

Cheers,

Mitch

I just wanted to go with the flow here and say thank you! Amazing what you have done for the photo community, the amount of time you've put into this project... wow!

I saw that you credited Michael Reichmann on the site, I suppose you've shown him the script? You should ask him to do a comparison between your scripts and PK sharpener on his site, that would give a lot of credibility for those that don't dare to try it
I was halfway through an email to him, when I noticed you mentioned him on the site, so I gave up that idea...

Once again, thanks a lot!

./martin

martook wrote:
I just wanted to go with the flow here and say thank you! Amazing what you have done for the photo community, the amount of time you've put into this project... wow!

I saw that you credited Michael Reichmann on the site, I suppose you've shown him the script? You should ask him to do a comparison between your scripts and PK sharpener on his site, that would give a lot of credibility for those that don't dare to try it
I was halfway through an email to him, when I noticed you mentioned him on the site, so I gave up that idea...

Once again, thanks a lot!

./martin

Feel free to write Michael.

I have a lot of respect for Michael. I think he is one of the best landscape and journalism photographers.

I have even contributed to his site.

A message from somone else would be better received.

I am pleased that you find the scripts to be helpful!

Cheers,

Mitch

Thanks Mitch for all your hard work and for considering people enough to write a user guide. I know from experience what a mission this must have been, so credit to you. Very generous.

I will try it when I get a chance with some suitable shots and feedback any results ... tho' my needs are going to be fairly simple.

This is probably a dumb question but how do you "close the layer set"?

After running Capture sharpening, you need to close the layer before you can run Creative sharpening or you get the error. I have been using Layer/Flatten Layer. Is this right?

Click the down arrow to the left of the layerset name in the Layers panel.

Thanks.

RTMiller wrote:
Thanks.

This goofed me up a bunch of times too.

OK. That's something I can take a screenshot of and include in the manual.

I'll take care of it.

Cheers,

Mitch

Flattening will do it, but then you lose the opportunity to make adjustments later.

JFRANCHO explains the better option. Just click the little triangle icon to the left of the layer set name.

I'll add a screenshot to the manual.

Cheers,

Mitch

gmitchel wrote:
OK. That's something I can take a screenshot of and include in the manual.

I'll take care of it.

Cheers,

Mitch

Actually, I've been goofed up a lot longer than your scripts have been around...

Works very well! I downloaded it when this thread first came up, and just got back from a mountain trip. I d'loaded the newer version and tried it out on a few landscapes. My first impression is that it works better than any of my other scripts or actions. Thanks again.

Cool. There will be a version "h" release this weekend. When I added the call to Desaturate to the output sharpener, that step will fail in Grayscale. I need to add a conditional statement. Just a quick, minor fix.

Cheers,

Mitch

Done. Version 1.0h is posted.

Cheers,

Mitch

I received a request to add Masks Only to the defaults that can run without a UI. The person wanted to use the script just to create the masks, primarily to have a surface mask for Noise Ninja or Neat Image.

It was a reasonable request. You can find version 1.0i on the site.

Enjoy!

Cheers,

Mitch