Ultra-Sharpen 7 vs. Intellisharpen II

"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

"trondeh" wrote in message

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

Yea, I haven’t had a problem with it at all.

"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

trondeh wrote:

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.

Yes, you can but I wonder what benefit that would bring you. The major difference between Smart Sharpen and Unsharp Mask is that Smart Sharpen does already look for edge detail. I don’t know if using Smart Sharpen in combination with an edge mask does much more than Smart Sharpen without one.

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

I have just posted three new samples.

The first one is the image unsharpened
The second one is the image sharpened with Smart Sharpen alone The third one is the image sharpened with Smart Sharpen through Ultra-Sharpen 7.0 Pro.

You can view the samples at: http://www.ultrasharpen.com/samples.html Scroll down towards the bottom.

Robert