Topic: A little advice on sharpening and two recent images.

[eddie]

Messing around with Blurb publishing,  they have a lovely 7*7 in inches photo book that would suit some square images.  However I have very few PS skills other than levels and curves and was wondering about sharpening the images before uploading.   What percentage radius and threshold should be applied in unsharp mask or is there a better way of doing this.  Its an old version of PS I use.  What should be applied for web images is it the same.  All the images originate from  negative scans .

Here are two Holga images i took on the way home last night. The train station is two photos one from each platform looking the same way. They are both sharpened about 30%

[Francois]

Hi!
you could check out this thread
http://filmwasters.com/forum/index.php?topic=1329.0

there's a lot of talk about sharpening. But keep in mind that it will probably remove quite a bit of the Holga blur.

[rdbkorn]

There are various approaches to sharpening images, and settings in unsharp mask vary according to the subject, the amount of sharpening required, etc. A good starting point that works well with a range of images is Amount 80%, Radius 1 and Threshold 4.

[Ed Wenn]

Eddie, my advice would be to try out some settings that you like the look of on the screen and then print them out full size on your home printer (if you have one) or send them off to Bonusprint (or whoever) to get some cheap full size proofs and then see what you think of the various options. I'm sure others will have tips on what's worked for them in the past, but in my experience a lot depends on the print size of the final image as well as the images themselves.