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Aug 22, 2006View in Crawl 4
The sharpening technique used in all cameras (even my Canon 1DII) is inferior to what you can achieve in a good image editing program. That's a moot point though because we are talking about sharpening after the action of resizing an image. It's needed because interpolation has an anti-alaising-like effect on images which blurs the edges. Some light sharpening can bring the edges back to where they are supposed to be. Hope that makes sense.BTW, I realize most people won't care if their resized photos are sharpened but some photo geeks such as myself might. :)
thewizspsAug 22, 2006
Hmm, I don't know if I would /always/ want sharpening, but it couldn't hurt as an option.
petervcookAug 22, 2006
Does it look like the image has been sharpened? I personally don't like artificially sharpened images. I turn that all the way down when I use a DSLR.
daffyduckAug 23, 2006
The sharpening technique used in all cameras (even my Canon 1DII) is inferior to what you can achieve in a good image editing program. That's a moot point though because we are talking about sharpening after the action of resizing an image. It's needed because interpolation has an anti-alaising-like effect on images which blurs the edges. Some light sharpening can bring the edges back to where they are supposed to be. Hope that makes sense.BTW, I realize most people won't care if their resized photos are sharpened but some photo geeks such as myself might. :)
daffyduckAug 23, 2006
Also, I realize this is just a quickie tool, not a photoshop replacement.ps. I really miss the longer edit allowances.