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rabanito

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PhotoKit Sharpener discontinued?
« on: March 11, 2019, 08:39:49 am »

Somebody in this forum made me aware of this sharpening tool.
I got it for free and I read that it has been discontinued
It has a great manual and in no time we were friends.
And also in no time the pictures I tried it with were where I wanted them to be.

Probably personal taste, I know.

On the other hand I see more sharpening apps on the market...

Just out of curiosity, why do this good things disappear?
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Re: PhotoKit Sharpener discontinued?
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2019, 09:16:52 am »

Somebody in this forum made me aware of this sharpening tool.
I got it for free and I read that it has been discontinued
It has a great manual and in no time we were friends.
And also in no time the pictures I tried it with were where I wanted them to be.

Probably personal taste, I know.

On the other hand I see more sharpening apps on the market...

Just out of curiosity, why do this good things disappear?

It could have been a recommendation from me - I keep recommending it all the time.

It's still the best as far as I'm concerned. The options and flexibility it offers, as well as the quality of the results with proper use, are superb.

I shall be very "pissed" (to be impolite about it) when it no longer coheres with future upgrades of Photoshop or OSX, but that's life.

I think we must understand that it consumes a lot of developers' time and effort to keep updating their products every time cooperating infrastructure changes, and there comes a point when perhaps the business case for maintaining a product simply diminishes below viability - that would be one common reason why "good things disappear". But for any other specific reasons, the developers themselves would have to advise.
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Re: PhotoKit Sharpener discontinued?
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2019, 11:07:46 am »

It could have been a recommendation from me - I keep recommending it all the time.
Yes it was your recommendation
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Re: PhotoKit Sharpener discontinued?
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2019, 01:45:12 pm »

Last year I was able to download Photokit Sharpener 2 from the Pixel Genius website but this was only useful because I already had a license from a prior purchase, so I think you are correct and Photokit Sharpener is effectively discontinued.
Users looking for other output sharpeners may want to consider Topaz Detail (or Topaz Precision Detail for Topaz Studio users).  I mentioned these yesterday as the result of some tests I did in the "Sharpen AI by Topaz" thread and Bart replied with his observations both there, and recently in the "When is a Picture Sharp Enough" subject.  If nothing else,  I feel many of my own prints and web images have benefited from use of Topaz Detail as a creative tool to selectively bring attention to parts of an image by using a Mask on the Photoshop layer.

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Re: PhotoKit Sharpener discontinued?
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2019, 02:54:06 pm »

There’s a message in the forums somewhere from Jeff as to the why.


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Re: PhotoKit Sharpener discontinued?
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2019, 03:15:05 pm »

There’s a message in the forums somewhere from Jeff as to the why.
The message that counts is outlined here:
http://pixelgenius.com
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