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Re: Lenses and sharpening

PeterN
SubjectRe: Lenses and sharpening
FromPeterN
Date09/20/2014 21:57 (09/20/2014 15:57)
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On 9/19/2014 12:51 PM, nospam wrote:

nospam
In article <lvharh060h@news4.newsguy.com>, PeterN <peter@verizon.net> wrote:

PeterN
I have found that using high pass on the luminiscence layer in LAB tends to minimize halos.

Savageduck
Actually it is a good idea to do any/all/most sharpening on a luminosity layer, LAB or not.

nospam
not always, since the conversion to lab and back is not lossless.

Eric Stevens
Not strictly correct:

https://www.ledet.com/margulis/ACT_postings/ColorCorrection/ACT-LAB-damage.h tm

">I have always thought that moving from either CMYK or RGB to Lab

nospam
and back was a damage free process, that is, you would end up with the same color co-ordinates when you arrived back from Lab mode.

Eric Stevens
"RGB>LAB>RGB is damage free, but CMYK>LAB>CMYK is not. The damage isn't all that great, so in many images it pays to come out of CMYK so as to take advantage of LAB's strengths; sharpening, however, is not one of these cases. .... Dan Margulis"

PeterN
But you sould know that nosense knows much more than Dan Margulies.

nospam
i do, as do most people, but that's not the point.

The sad thinkg is you you beleive it. And What Dan wrote in hiis book is exactly on point.

Show me a repeatable expiriment. And I will admit being wrong. -- PeterN

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