Excuse the off-topic but there haven't been any postings for several days. Always look forward to reading them each morning. Fred and Terry do such fine work.
Don
Hi Don,
Usually, I think because of my enthusiasm and total commitment to Qimage, I come across as a zealot.
That's good, because I am!!
So many of my start up posts end up as lead balloons!
Terry is quiet because the Olympics are almost in his back yard and he is enjoying them being close by. He knows the areas and terrain and has a greater appreciation than someone who lives elsewhere.
He hardly speaks to me. anymore.!!
I am quiet because I don't want to appear over bearing, but I love my QU.
So here's what I was up to so far this week.
Took a few pictures early (before sun up) on Monday.
One of them was as shown below. ( I cropped it so the file would fit on here) It is essentially a heron that is standing quietly as the dawn breaks and some beautiful pink light crosses the scene.
My task was to sharpen the heron ONLY. The heron is in the shadows... to lighten, would spoil the effect of the lighting.
As most of you know, if you sharpen trees, leaves, or water, it will be easily noted as over sharpened. Makes it look fake!
So I selected Tone Targeted sharpening; Target the SELECTED RGB, and clicked on the heron as my sample.
Magnifier in preview set to a minimum of 1X, I set a radius of 4 and a strength of 250 to start.
Using the RGB mode, you will find it hard to see any change, the the selected RGB values are tight.
No I moved the EQ slider from (default) 100% to 95%, take a peek, move it to 90%, and 85%. Each increment widening the RGB values a little more.
85% looked fine.
That was the bird! Now I recheck my pink water and my blue and gray water. Nothing at all. No sharpening!
Terry has gone over this before but there are so many uses and so many ways to attack!
Second example:
A shot of the bay! The way the light was slanting in, the ripples in the water were already appearing too sharp.
Task: sharpen the shoreline and the boats.
I used Sharpen selected TONE. The tone was the water. (Wait a minute! You said that was too sharp already!)
Right! So I set Tone Targeted sharpening to a radius of 2 and strength of -100 (minus 100)
Then I added the extra click: Sharpen UNTARGETED AREAS.
That told QU to reverse the -100 to a +100 and apply to everything except the water.
Worked very well.
Try this stuff on your own images, and for those who still sit with the old versions, "C'mon man! Time to stop cranking those car windows open. Get Electric Power Windows!
Fred
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