Comments on: Aperture 1.5 is out. Awesome stuff! http://www.friday.com/bbum/2006/09/30/aperture-15-is-out/ ...so google can index my head. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:29:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: bbum’s weblog-o-mat » Blog Archive » Aperture: The Color Tool http://www.friday.com/bbum/2006/09/30/aperture-15-is-out/comment-page-1/#comment-29339 bbum’s weblog-o-mat » Blog Archive » Aperture: The Color Tool Wed, 04 Oct 2006 07:01:58 +0000 http://www.friday.com/bbum/2006/09/30/aperture-15-is-out/#comment-29339 [...] A couple of days ago, I blogged about the release of Aperture 1.5 and how I really dig the refinements and performance boost. Using the photos at right as a [macro — hey, I’m a happy flower photographer and I’m not afraid to admit it] example, I was able to use the color tools to refine a photo in ways that I couldn’t before. [...] [...] A couple of days ago, I blogged about the release of Aperture 1.5 and how I really dig the refinements and performance boost. Using the photos at right as a [macro — hey, I’m a happy flower photographer and I’m not afraid to admit it] example, I was able to use the color tools to refine a photo in ways that I couldn’t before. [...]

]]> By: Charles http://www.friday.com/bbum/2006/09/30/aperture-15-is-out/comment-page-1/#comment-28467 Charles Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:39:22 +0000 http://www.friday.com/bbum/2006/09/30/aperture-15-is-out/#comment-28467 I think the new "edge sharpening" tools are a dumbed-down variation of Unsharp Masking. Unfortunately, Unsharp Mask is one of the most difficult tools to master, but it has a huge payoff especially for low resolution web images. There are a few Photoshop plugins that come with pretty good presets for web Unsharp Masking, like Nik Sharpener. BTW, here's a <a href="http://weblog.ceicher.com/archives/2002/05/unsharp_mask.html" rel="nofollow">short essay on Unsharp Mask</a> I wrote a few years ago. There are some particularly good essays on Unsharp Mask in the book "Photoshop for Photographers" that really helped me understand it fully. I think the new “edge sharpening” tools are a dumbed-down variation of Unsharp Masking. Unfortunately, Unsharp Mask is one of the most difficult tools to master, but it has a huge payoff especially for low resolution web images. There are a few Photoshop plugins that come with pretty good presets for web Unsharp Masking, like Nik Sharpener.

BTW, here’s a short essay on Unsharp Mask I wrote a few years ago. There are some particularly good essays on Unsharp Mask in the book “Photoshop for Photographers” that really helped me understand it fully.

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