Hi Bart,
I've started playing around with Studio; with a hope to mimicking the results I achieved with Infocus (Out-Of-Focus) de-convolution sharpening; as you mentioned the controls are more minimal.
Have you had a chance to play and fathom them out as yet?
Hi Alex,
Nothing in-depth, but while it's useful for Capture sharpening when used in moderation, I'm still using the PS plugins InFocus or FocusMagic.
So far I have found the Lens Deblur to be far more aggressive (the Unsharp Mask seems to unzero it self when ones starts adjusting the Lens Deblur), easily creating jagged edges whilst hardly resolving the lens blur.
Yes, it is slightly heavy handed, but then one should only use a little Lens Deblur. From what I've read, it uses blind deconvolution which means that it adapts to the sharpest parts of the image, and deconvolves based on that. One can only change the amount that is applied, not the radius as such. The Threshold is used to avoid low contrast features to be sharpened too much.
The Unsharp Mask sliders also move when you move those in the Lens Deblur mode, but they are mutually exclusive. You only use one, or the other. So after applying a small amount of Lens Deblur and a bit of threshold (e.g. 20/20), one can add another Sharpen adjustment layer and then use Unsharp Mask with a radius of choice (I tend to stay near 0.7 - 0.8 radius unless diffraction is significant). These two together allow to get a decent amount of sharpening done, but nothing as refined as with InFocus or FocusMagic.
One could use several Unsharp Mask adjustment layers with different Radii.
BTW, I tend to set the sharpen blend mode to Luminosity, and might tweak the opacity a bit.
Cheers
Bart