Google| Subject | Re: Any Minolta/Sony users using UFRaw and GIMP? |
| From | Floyd L. Davidson |
| Date | 04/06/2014 06:18 (04/05/2014 20:18) |
| Message-ID | <87fvlroztb.fld@apaflo.com> |
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| Newsgroups | rec.photo.digital |
| Follows | Alan Browne |
| Followups | nospam (2h & 25m) PeterN (1d, 19h & 1m) > Floyd L. Davidson |
Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca>wrote:
Alan BrowneTell us about how great it is to have only a choice between "bicubic sharper" and "bicubic smoother" for filters when resampling an image either down for the web or up for printing!
And as time goes on and the capability set of Photoshop increases more quickly than the Gimp's poor record of catching up ... well...
One exercise, optimally sharpening (USM) a finished image, is but one of many examples I can use to show that the Gimp is a poor user experience for photographers. Yes - you can achieve the desired end for many things - just not as quickly or efficiently as in PS. (and yes, sufficient cherry picking will fine exceptions).You can't get sharpening quit right using Photoshop.
But with GIMP it is possible to combine, in proportions of the users choice, Wavelet sharpening, High Pass sharpening, Unsharp Mask, and Richardson-Lucy Deconvolutional sharpening.
Photoshop is fine if you are willing to settle for "good enough", but if you know the difference you'll get between *proper* application of USM, HP sharpen and RL sharpen there is no comparison.
-- Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/ Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@apaflo.com
04/05/2014-
