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by derekfountain
Wed Apr 01, 2009 1:13 pm
Forum: What's your Workflow
Topic: Sharpening ?
Replies: 23
Views: 24686

<blockquote><br />Derek, could you spare a minute and confirm that http://www.broadhurst-family.co.uk/Blending/InteractiveBlending.htm also fails under firefox<br /></blockquote><br /><br />Yes, as Greg says, it asks for a plugin. I'm not sure what it's after. Ignoring that, most of the bu...
by derekfountain
Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:51 am
Forum: What's your Workflow
Topic: Sharpening ?
Replies: 23
Views: 24686

<blockquote><br />Dead right - I think it is a terrible animal and keeps falling over.  So I tried Chrome, which seems quite good, but I found that it fails on certain sites, just like FireFox does on mine.<br /></blockquote><br /><br />It's a mistake to blame the browser for not being able to ...
by derekfountain
Tue Mar 31, 2009 6:29 pm
Forum: What's your Workflow
Topic: Sharpening ?
Replies: 23
Views: 24686

<blockquote><br />I slightly disagree with Derek and conducted a sharpening experiment, comparing around 11 different methods - the results were quite interesting<br />see http://www.broadhurst-family.co.uk/lefteye/MainPages/sharpening.htm if you are interested!<br /></blockquote><br /><br />I am in...
by derekfountain
Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:42 am
Forum: What's your Workflow
Topic: Sharpening ?
Replies: 23
Views: 24686

<blockquote><br />Do one run at this in your normal work flow completely..then...<br />Do one run at this using LAB mode for the sharpen....instead of your usual sharpen tools unless you just use PS tools for sharpen.<br /></blockquote><br /><br />I don't have time to work the image, but I'...
by derekfountain
Sat Mar 28, 2009 4:17 pm
Forum: What's your Workflow
Topic: Anyone care to take a swing at this one....
Replies: 22
Views: 24358

<blockquote><br />If you could not get it done in a "reasonable time frame"...Say under 10 minutes...how are we going to teach / train anyone to get there without losing them in the minute details required to produce your images?  <br /></blockquote><br /><br />I think the answer to that is to provi...
by derekfountain
Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:04 pm
Forum: What's your Workflow
Topic: Anyone care to take a swing at this one....
Replies: 22
Views: 24358

<blockquote><br />I'm posting 3 shots back to you.  Pick the best...Zog you might be able to pick out yours...but look at them all with a critical Eye and let's see which one would win.  <br />My goal with this is going to be cost benefit with time as the currency.  Derek how long did you ...
by derekfountain
Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:48 pm
Forum: What's your Workflow
Topic: Anyone care to take a swing at this one....
Replies: 22
Views: 24358

<blockquote><br />I agree Derek, from my small inspection of the Shadow/Highlight filter, that it does amazing things, but I am not convinced that it is necessary for most images and I try and shy away from halos - yes I know one can play with the radius to reduce them.  The other thing that this fi...
by derekfountain
Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:26 pm
Forum: What's your Workflow
Topic: Course structure/content
Replies: 7
Views: 10006

<blockquote><br />You have to be selective but it can be the right wrench for the job on some especially tough images.<br /></blockquote><br /><br />I don't doubt that masks are useful, but I rarely see images that would benefit from them. That's probably more because I don't spot pro...
by derekfountain
Fri Mar 27, 2009 12:35 pm
Forum: What's your Workflow
Topic: Course structure/content
Replies: 7
Views: 10006

<blockquote><br />Excellent starting points Greg...<br /></blockquote><br /><br />Personally, I'd go the other way. Take out the non-CM stuff from Greg's list and see what's left. There are countless articles on print vs web vs press, scanning, composition, sharpening and all that stu...
by derekfountain
Fri Mar 27, 2009 12:05 pm
Forum: What's your Workflow
Topic: Anyone care to take a swing at this one....
Replies: 22
Views: 24358

<blockquote><br />It raises an interesting point (to me anyway) - the use of the Shadow/Highlight tool in CS3.  Although I have CS3, I very rarely use it, preferring the PS7 (quicker and I'm use to it) version.  I can simulate the new tool using Gamma and BlendIFs, but I'm not sure it is r...

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