How is Magic Sharpener used in practice

[ImageSkill]

It is very nice for us to know that our products do make our users happier. Horace G Moore III from Goldsboro (NC, US) is one of them. He is still enjoying using our program Magic Sharpener. We are very grateful to Horace for his permission to cite a few words from his letter to us:

'Thank you again for your sharpening plugin, it's great. I have continued to enjoy your sharpening program.  It always remains artistic, without the brittle-crunchy appearance that unsharp mask often produces in my nature images."

It would be important to say that Horace G Moore III has been interested in photography for about 25 years and became an avid wildlife photographer (amateur) about 10 years ago. He has been fortunate to have images used during many conferences concerning the environment and especially Yellowstone National Park. Two books for children "Those Excellent Eagles" and "Those Outrageous Owls" were enhanced with his full-color photographs.
 
Horace kindly allows us to put some of his pictures in our gallery at http://www.imageskill.com/gallery.html. You can look at them and appreciate how artistic and impressive they are. Horace supplied us with a few examples: the original pictures and the sharpened ones with our program Magic Sharpener. In our gallery we put resized original pictures, but the fragments taken from full size original and enhanced pictures are presented in natural size.

These images were taken with Nikon D200, Fuji S5 Pro and Kodak DSLR (13 megapixels) equipped with HoraceТs favorite lenses Nikon 80-400mmVR and 8-200mmVR, Sigma 120-300mm f2.8, and a Sigma 300-800mm f5.6.

Look at the marvelous HoraceТs pictures of wildlife and enjoy as we do.

ImageSkill Team

[ImageSkill]

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.

Best wishes,
Mikhail