Video: Print sharpening choices
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Print sharpening choices when making an A2 landscape fine art print
How does sharpening fit in at various points in Keith’s printmaking workflow. How it depends on the source image and your creative choices for the print. How do my print sharpening choices depend on image content – when might I need no sharpening at all?
In the video I walk through my generic image to print workflow, including processing files and editing them to make a print at the chosen size. There are different ways of doing most steps, but it’s knowing where you want to get to that matters.
The basics of sharpening are covered in several articles and reviews on this site. These include the Nik software mentioned in the video
I’ve an article about viewing distances and print resolution has been regularly updated since 2006
More about sharpening
An article looking into the combination of upsizing and sharpening is
Making a big print form a small image file
This includes a 30min video looking at the issues and process involved
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Video timeline: You print sharpening choices?
- 00:00 Start
- 00:30 Choice of photo
- 01:22 Software options
- 02:38 Looking at the original RAW file
- 04:20 Viewing distance – think about your audience
- 05:30 Editing choices – tonality
- 09:10 Scaling the image for a big print?
- 10:20 Printer quality settings
- 10:58 Should you sharpen before enlargement
- 13:55 Looking at the enlarged image for additional editing
- 15:05 Watching for dust spots
- 16:10 Sharpening for print
- 17:29 Nik Sharpener – an example method
- 19:38 Does the print sharpening matter [for this image]
- 19:50 Rendering intents
- 21:05 Working colour space choice
- 21:40 Looking at the print results
- 22:45 Fitting the sharpening to the image content
- 25:23 So, when does sharpening matter?
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