Hi All,
I would strongly recommend all of you look at the excellent article about sharpening written by Hugo Rodriguez (
www.hugorodriguez.com). He is a pro photographer and works as a photo technique professor and as a digital image / color management technician and consultant at EGM Pro labs at Barcelona, Spain. I hope you enjoy this article. It is the most comprehensive and professionally done comparison of the modern sharpness plug-ins and filters I have ever seen. Originally it was written in Spanish (
http://www.hugorodriguez.com/index_nitidez-perfecta.php) but the Google translation (Spanish to English) version at
http://66.102.9.104/translate_c?hl=es&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=es%7Cen&u=http://www.hugorodriguez.com/index_nitidez-perfecta.php&prev=/language_tools&usg=ALkJrhhCbtNNtHq97SQsO6zJUCTJzSC8Qg is also available. The nine following plug-ins:
- Sharpen ASPhoto of AmphiSoft
- CrispImage Pro of Softwhile
- FocalBlade of ThePluginSite
- FocusFixer of FixerLabs
- FocusMagic of Acclaim Software
- MagicSharpener of Image Skill
- Nik Sharpener Pro of Nik Software
- PhotoKit Sharpener of PixelGenius
- Smart Sharpen of ChromaSoftware
were carefully tested. Three of them: Focus Magic, our plug-in Magic Sharpener, and Photokit Sharpener provide very good results keeping all fine details. We are happy that our plug-in got an independent expert appreciation.
For details see links mentioned above.
I am sure this article can be very valuable and useful both for professionals and ordinary users and can help everyone choose the best plug-in for image sharpening.
Best wishes,
Mikhail
