| When using the "advanced sharpen" function in Picture Window Pro you 
have the option (as in a horse being led to water) to do noise removal 
before proceeding to the actual sharpening.
Chuck Norcutt
Moose wrote:
> 
> When using film with significant grain or digital with noise, it's 
> better to use no sharpening at all until after any application of noise 
> filtering. Sharpening also sharpens the edges of the noise/grain, adding 
> to the the work the noise filtering has to do and making it less 
> effective at reducing noise without losing detail. Here, in addition to 
> my own experience, I can refer to a specific acknowledged expert, Bruce 
> Fraser, in Image Sharpening With Adobe Photoshop CS2.
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