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<blockquote data-quote="Clovishound" data-source="post: 803794" data-attributes="member: 50197"><p>Well, I am working my way through the programs. I have already posted some on this subject, and thought I should create a new thread on it.</p><p></p><p>I am finding the programs to be a mixed bag. Worth the money, but they don't work well on all subjects and situations from my limited experience. I find that Sharpen AI is the least impressive of the three, and the one I had the highest hopes for. Here is a photo I picked because it wasn't quite sharp. I appears that the camera locked onto something other than the eye of the bird. It's not too badly out of focus, but too soft for use. It's not a terribly worthy picture for anything other than a test of the software. I ran it through the Sharpen AI software as an unprocessed NEF file. I then imported the Sharpened image and the original image into Lightroom and cropped them. One thing I noticed was that after running it through Sharpen AI, the image had substantially less contrast. I ended up adjusting the contrast, shadow and highlights to get the two photos to match as closely as I could by eye. I bumped up the sharpening in Sharpen to 50% to increase sharpness. I tried higher, but it started looking funky.</p><p></p><p>Here's the cropped, otherwise unedited image.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]389506[/ATTACH]</p><p>And here is the image after running it through Sharpen AI, and adjusting contrast, highlights and shadows.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]389507[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Clovishound, post: 803794, member: 50197"] Well, I am working my way through the programs. I have already posted some on this subject, and thought I should create a new thread on it. I am finding the programs to be a mixed bag. Worth the money, but they don't work well on all subjects and situations from my limited experience. I find that Sharpen AI is the least impressive of the three, and the one I had the highest hopes for. Here is a photo I picked because it wasn't quite sharp. I appears that the camera locked onto something other than the eye of the bird. It's not too badly out of focus, but too soft for use. It's not a terribly worthy picture for anything other than a test of the software. I ran it through the Sharpen AI software as an unprocessed NEF file. I then imported the Sharpened image and the original image into Lightroom and cropped them. One thing I noticed was that after running it through Sharpen AI, the image had substantially less contrast. I ended up adjusting the contrast, shadow and highlights to get the two photos to match as closely as I could by eye. I bumped up the sharpening in Sharpen to 50% to increase sharpness. I tried higher, but it started looking funky. Here's the cropped, otherwise unedited image. [ATTACH type="full" alt="_DAB6604.jpg"]389506[/ATTACH] And here is the image after running it through Sharpen AI, and adjusting contrast, highlights and shadows. [ATTACH type="full" alt="_DAB6604-SharpenAI-Focus.jpg"]389507[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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