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When I use Photoshop to spruce up photos from my digital camera I often apply:
Auto-Levels
Sharpen
Despeckle
Increase Saturation (10-20%)
Increase contrast and brightness
Adjust Levels (to chop off the upper and lower range when few pixels exist in those color ranges)
Scale (shrink to a more usable size for the web, email, etc.)
What I’m wondering is….
If I were going to apply all of those, in what order should I apply them? Should sharpen come before scaling, or after?
Should despeckle come before sharpening, or after? Etc.. Should I over-sharpen before scaling down?
I know that errors can compound. Doing a scale down, and then a scale up, for example, would be a really stupid thing to do. I assume doing multiple level adjusts is a mistake — like adjusting the contrast followed by auto-levels, then adjust levels. Are there other general rules like these?
Thanks!
Auto-Levels
Sharpen
Despeckle
Increase Saturation (10-20%)
Increase contrast and brightness
Adjust Levels (to chop off the upper and lower range when few pixels exist in those color ranges)
Scale (shrink to a more usable size for the web, email, etc.)
What I’m wondering is….
If I were going to apply all of those, in what order should I apply them? Should sharpen come before scaling, or after?
Should despeckle come before sharpening, or after? Etc.. Should I over-sharpen before scaling down?
I know that errors can compound. Doing a scale down, and then a scale up, for example, would be a really stupid thing to do. I assume doing multiple level adjusts is a mistake — like adjusting the contrast followed by auto-levels, then adjust levels. Are there other general rules like these?
Thanks!
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