Ultra-Sharpen 7 vs. Intellisharpen II

Hi!

I have had a look at the new Ultra-Sharpen 7, and it seams to be very interesting. I downloaded the .PSD sample file containing a layer that has been sharpened with Ultrasharpen. I have tried to sharpen the unsharpened original using different tools, as well as the FM Intellisharpen tool that I mostly use for all my sharpening. However, it seams that the result with Ultrasharpen in better than what I am able to accomplish with Intellisharpen.

Has anybody any experience with Ultra-Sharpen? It is so cheap ($15), that I might buy it anyway only to try it out. Any opinions would be appreciated.

Regards
Trond

"trondeh" wrote in message

Hi!

I have had a look at the new Ultra-Sharpen 7, and it seams to be very interesting. I downloaded the .PSD sample file containing a layer that has been sharpened with Ultrasharpen. I have tried to sharpen the unsharpened original using different tools, as well as the FM Intellisharpen tool that I mostly use for all my sharpening. However, it seams that the result with Ultrasharpen in better than what I am able to accomplish with Intellisharpen.

Has anybody any experience with Ultra-Sharpen? It is so cheap ($15), that

I

might buy it anyway only to try it out. Any opinions would be appreciated.
Regards
Trond

I use ultra sharpen. It works great on almost anything. I use it mostly on pics after I've reduced to 72ppi for the web.

trondeh wrote:

I have had a look at the new Ultra-Sharpen 7, and it seams to be very interesting. I downloaded the .PSD sample file containing a layer that has been sharpened with Ultrasharpen. I have tried to sharpen the unsharpened original using different tools, as well as the FM Intellisharpen tool that I mostly use for all my sharpening. However, it seams that the result with Ultrasharpen in better than what I am able to accomplish with Intellisharpen.

Has anybody any experience with Ultra-Sharpen? It is so cheap ($15), that I might buy it anyway only to try it out. Any opinions would be appreciated.

I compared it to the new Smart Sharpen in Photoshop CS2, and decided that Photoshop Smart Sharpen is clearly better.

--
Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl/

On 15 Jun 2005 09:36:38 +0200, trondeh wrote:

Hi!

I have had a look at the new Ultra-Sharpen 7, and it seams to be very interesting. I downloaded the .PSD sample file containing a layer that has been sharpened with Ultrasharpen. I have tried to sharpen the unsharpened original using different tools, as well as the FM Intellisharpen tool that I mostly use for all my sharpening. However, it seams that the result with Ultrasharpen in better than what I am able to accomplish with Intellisharpen.

Has anybody any experience with Ultra-Sharpen? It is so cheap ($15), that I might buy it anyway only to try it out. Any opinions would be appreciated.
Regards
Trond

I prefer Brainsharpen. You go to image/filter/sharpen/USM and use your brain.

--

Hecate - The Real One

Fashion: Buying things you don't need, with money
you don't have, to impress people you don't like...

"Johan W. Elzenga" wrote in message

trondeh wrote:

I have had a look at the new Ultra-Sharpen 7, and it seams to be very interesting. I downloaded the .PSD sample file containing a layer that

has

been sharpened with Ultrasharpen. I have tried to sharpen the

unsharpened

original using different tools, as well as the FM Intellisharpen tool

that

I mostly use for all my sharpening. However, it seams that the result

with

Ultrasharpen in better than what I am able to accomplish with Intellisharpen.

Has anybody any experience with Ultra-Sharpen? It is so cheap ($15),

that I

might buy it anyway only to try it out. Any opinions would be

appreciated.

I compared it to the new Smart Sharpen in Photoshop CS2, and decided that Photoshop Smart Sharpen is clearly better.

--
Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl/

I have PS7, so unless Smart sharpen is a plugin I can't try it.

Hecate wrote:
....

I prefer Brainsharpen. You go to image/filter/sharpen/USM and use your brain.

Easy for you to say, Hecate, since you have such a fine one :-) --
Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com

"Scruff" <Get @ Grip> wrote:

I compared it to the new Smart Sharpen in Photoshop CS2, and decided that Photoshop Smart Sharpen is clearly better.

I have PS7, so unless Smart sharpen is a plugin I can't try it.

It's a new Photoshop CS2 plugin, but it won't run on older versions of Photoshop.

--
Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl/

Johan W. Elzenga wrote:

I compared it to the new Smart Sharpen in Photoshop CS2, and decided that Photoshop Smart Sharpen is clearly better.

You can also use smart-sharpen with an advanced action for CS2. It then uses smart-sharpen instead of unsharp for the final sharpening. As Ultrasharpen is an action, you can of course do everything yourself (brainsharpen :-), but as far as I have figured out, it is the way the masks are made that makes Ultrasharpen really usefull.

By the way, I forked-out the $15 for it. So far, my initial impression is that it does a better job than Intellisharpen II. You have total controll of the sharpening process, and it seams to be easier to get the exact results you want then with a simple automatic one-size-fits-all(none) plug-in. It comes with a set of actions that sets "sensible" default values that allows it to run fully automatized with no user intervention if required.

Trond

"Mike Russell" wrote in message

Hecate wrote:
...

I prefer Brainsharpen. You go to image/filter/sharpen/USM and use your brain.

Easy for you to say, Hecate, since you have such a fine one :-) --
Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com

So is that it? She has a brainsharpen plug-in installed on her?

Scruff wrote:

"Mike Russell" wrote in message

Hecate wrote:
...

I prefer Brainsharpen. You go to image/filter/sharpen/USM and use your brain.

Easy for you to say, Hecate, since you have such a fine one :-) --
Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com

So is that it? She has a brainsharpen plug-in installed on her?

Yes, with 150 percent sharpen.

And others - I won't mention names - have a brain blur installed, radius 100 :-)
--

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:47:14 -0400, "Scruff" <Get @ Grip> wrote:

"Mike Russell" wrote in message

Hecate wrote:
...

I prefer Brainsharpen. You go to image/filter/sharpen/USM and use your brain.

Easy for you to say, Hecate, since you have such a fine one :-) --
Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com

So is that it? She has a brainsharpen plug-in installed on her?

LOL!

--

Hecate - The Real One

Fashion: Buying things you don't need, with money
you don't have, to impress people you don't like...