Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop CS2
Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop CS2 by Bruce Fraser is shipping.
It’s a sad but undeniable fact of life: Whether you scan, shoot, or capture, the process of digitizing images introduces softness, and to get great-looking results, you’ll need to sharpen the great majority of digital images.
The softness introduced during digitizing results from the very nature of the digitizing process. To represent images digitally, we must transform them from continuous gradations of tone and color to points on a grid. In the process details gets “averaged” into the pixels, softening the overall appearance.
For some types of printed output, further softness is introduced when the image pixels are converted to dots of ink or toner. As a result, just about every digital image requires sharpening.
But another sad fact of digital photography is that most images are sharpened badly; either not enough, too much, or using the wrong methods, creating chunky details and harsh edges. Author Bruce Fraser is here to teach readers all they need to know about sharpening including when to use it, why it’s needed, how to use the camera’s features, how to recognize when an image needs sharpening, how much to use, what constitutes bad sharpening and how to fix over sharpening. For more on Sharpening: http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/11242.html
Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop CS2
By Bruce Fraser
Published by Peachpit Press
ISBN: 0321449959
Published: Aug 1, 2006
Pages: 304; Edition: 1st.
List price: $31.99
Available at Adobe Press, Amazon
Bruce Fraser is an internationally known author, consultant and speaker on the topics of digital imaging and color reproduction. In addition to authoring Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS2, he is a contributing editor for Macworld magazine and co-author of the best-selling books Real World Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Real World Color Management, Second Edition. He is also a partner in PixelGenius, LLC. where he designed PhotoKit Sharpener.
Last year, Bruce sent in a picture taken by his lovely wife Angela announcing receipt of his author’s copies of Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS2 (See the PSN story). Well, Bruce and Angela did it again…this time with Bruce wearing his traditional Scottish kilt with the Fraser clan plaid holding a bottle of rare Tomintoul 16 year old single malt and a copy of Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop CS2.
Editor’s note: Men in skirts, ya gotta love them…
July 31st, 2006 at 1:05 pm
Bruce has never looked sharper.
Stephen
July 31st, 2006 at 4:46 pm
Odd, I’d have thought that his Tartan would have a Bayer configuration…
July 31st, 2006 at 5:02 pm
Bruce says this is the “ancient hunting Fraser plaid which predates digital photography and Bayer sensors….maybe it needs a new Bayer Plaid update Bruce?
July 31st, 2006 at 5:49 pm
Or maybe is it time for you to ask a new nationality, and a matching tartan?
Now that I come to think of it, it is not a very good idea for me to imagine Mr Schewebacca wearing a kilt, just when I’m heading to bed… I’ll blame the Bowmore
July 31st, 2006 at 7:21 pm
And I thought I was the one being silly….
July 31st, 2006 at 9:13 pm
Fraser plaid? I gotta change this monitor. I thought for sure it was a GM color checker.
August 1st, 2006 at 9:12 am
Darn you Bruce (we can’t say damn, can we?)
Another book I HAVE to buy and read.
After telling everyone sharpening is the most importent thing you can do in printing, I now have to read it to find out whattheheck I’m talking about.
August 1st, 2006 at 9:52 am
I thought the plaid was banned after Culloden, an early attempt at color management by the English government.
August 1st, 2006 at 10:01 am
Bruce, you never looked more handsome. RGB looks good on you.
I’ll be looking for your new book on O’Reilly Safari, when it’s available.