Sharpened=pale??
Hi all!
I am trying to sharpen my enlarged images (90x130 cm). This one (nr 2 I tried) shocked me.
It is upscaled in Photozoom Pro using the S-spline Max algorithm, then sharpened in Iridient using Richardson-Lucy, radius 3, 10 iterations. When I viewed the image in Iridient and downscaled it from 100% to screen view, it looked like peppered with white. In larger views, the image looked considerably paler overall compared to the original. Like the screen shots. I figured out that the reason was the many small branches=edges, and that the amount increased with the radius of the deconvolution. But as you can see on the screen shots, the effect is not confined to areas with fine branches, and not to diminished scales. The shots are displayed in PhotoLine at 100%.
I have tried other methods of sharpening.
Iridient Reveal, same effect, dependent on radius and the amount of Microtexture.
Raw Therapee, Wavelets and Richardson-Lucy: RT crashed when fed with the 1,2 GB file.
Photozoom Pro USM: the result is ridiculous in sharpness compared to Iridient.
What are you guys doing?