Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm not sure how it is, but it somehow seems to be...but half this stuff is voodoo, magic, bullshit - or a mix of all three...:-) -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Eric Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 7:51 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: [Leica] Re: That Leica Glow B.D.: > When converting to black and white, I now routinely to an "unsharpen > mask" at the start of the process with an amount of of about 15%, a > radius of about 55, and a threshold of 1 - which doesn't appear to > "sharpen," but instead appears to bump up the contrast, creating more > of a traditional "tri-x bw" look. Then, after doing whatever other > work I'm going to do, I do a "normal" unsharpen mask at the end..... I recently stumbled upon another guy's site about the same technique. I'm trying to decide how it's different than just upping the contrast. http://www.animalu.com/pics/process.htm -- Eric http://canid.com/ _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information