It’s good at sharpening up the slight softness you see with all digital camera images at a pixel level, but it doesn’t have the radius, amount and threshold sliders of a regular Unsharp Mask tool, so it’s no good for trying to disguise more serious blur from focus errors or camera shake. The RAW Presharpener covers capture sharpening and creative sharpening. ![]() There’s ‘capture’ sharpening’, which you use to overcome any lens softness, slight blur or other weaknesses in the original picture, and then there’s ‘output sharpening’ which needs to be matched carefully to your picture’s intended use. This is an important distinction often overlooked by photographers trying to make their pictures look as sharp as possible, because you need to sharpen images in different ways at different times. Just as Dfine aims to bring a bit of control and precision to noise reduction, Sharpener Pro does the same for image sharpening.Īnd it does it by splitting sharpening into two steps – into two plug-ins, as a matter of fact – a RAW Presharpener and an Output Sharpener. It’s not an effects tool, but an image enhancement tool in the save vein as Dfine. Sharpener Pro is one of the plug-ins in the DxO Nik Collection. ![]() ![]() That aside, though, its ‘capture sharpening’ tools, designed to counteract camera and lens softness, feel like they’re just a little too late in the workflow, when most of us would apply sharpening during RAW processing, or in the ‘host’ application used to launch Sharpener Pro. Its output sharpening tools are a reminder that images need to be optimised to look their best on different printers, and at different sizes.
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