Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop, Camera Raw, and Lightroom by Fraser, Bruce, Schewe, Jeff [21 August 2009]

by Bruce Fraser

It's a sad but undeniable fact of Whether you scan, shoot, or capture, the process of digitizing images introduces softness, and to get great-looking results, you'll need to sharpen the great majority of digital images. The softness introduced during digitizing results from the very nature of the digitizing process. To represent images digitally, we must transform them from continuous gradations of tone and color to points on a grid. In the process details gets "averaged" into the pixels, softening the overall appearance. For some types of printed output, further softness is introduced when the image pixels are converted to dots of ink or toner. As a result, just about every digital image requires sharpening. But another sad fact of digital photography is that most images are sharpened badly--either not enough, too much, or using the wrong methods--creating chunky details and harsh edges. Author, Bruce Fraser is here to teach readers all they need to know about sharpening including when to use it, why it's needed, how to use the camera's features, how to recognize an image needs sharpening, how much to use, what's bad sharpening and how to fix over sharpening. For more on

Genres: Photography

Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[abhinav kumar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing!

Every soul interested in deep dive in sharpening should read this book. Very informative and easy to understand. Highly recommended

[Rajiv Chopra · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent Book. New Edition Needed!

This is an excellent book on sharpening. This is one topic that has always got me puzzled, and the authors have managed to clear a lot of doubts. I like that they start with the theory, and go on to the practice. The examples are clear and excellent.

This is an extremely good reference book, and one that it would do a photographer well to keep handy at all times.