One of the advantages of using layers, especially with 8-bit color, is
that in effect you are reducing the truncation error that would occur
if you did it directly on the 8-bit values.
Wayne
At 12:39 AM 8/7/2004, you wrote:
>I've created an action that creates a new layer called LCE and does an
>Unsharp Mask of 20% @ radius 50 and threshold 0. I think I got those
>values off Luminous Landscape and have found them to work very well. The
>advantage of doing it in a separate layer are that you can adjust the
>layer opacity to lighten the effect, if necessary, without having to go
>back and forth trying different values, a big time saver. I find that
>these values work for a great many images. It's like lifting a veil over
>the real image in many cases. It doesn't do much to a few and really
>looks awful on occasional images.
>
>Moose
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