Hi!
You should probably not use Photoshop settings to sharpen images. The reason is that much better tools are available in Lightroom or ACR. That said sharpening is of course possible in Photoshop, it's just that much effort went into developing sharpening in ACR/Lightroom so optimum sharpening can be achieved easily. In addition there is some "halo suppression" in Lightroom/ACR which simple is not available in in PS tools.
Bruce Fraser and Jeff Schewe have written an excellent book on sharpening. They say that sharpeing consists of three phases:
- Capture sharpening restores what's lost in capture, the AA filter belongs to this
- Creative sharpening is than selectively applied to the image
- Finally there is some sharpening for output
My recommendation for capture sharpening for an AA-filtered camera would be:
Very small radius (0.3 - 0.4)
A large amount (300-500%)
An edge mask is recommended to sharpen contours but not increase noise
In Lightroom I would start with "Landscape preset", decrease radius increase amount and some masking. But I would really recommend the "Sharening book":
Real World Image Sharpening With Adobe Photoshop, Camera Raw, And Lightroom
by Fraser , Schewe , Bruce Fraser and Jeff Schewe
The Focus Magic tool that Bart mentions doesn't work on CS3 on Mac/Intel (the last time I checked), it would run if PS was running under Rosetta. Fixer Lab's Focus Fixer may be an alternative.
Best regards
Erik
Hello Bart,
If you don’t mind telling. As I have a Nikon D3x, I would be interested to know what Photoshop settings would you use to correctly sharpen the Nikon D3x images.
Regards
Simon