Little Zooey
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Sharpening
Can someone please humour me? I've done Martin's video tutorial and got the hang of sharpening... BUT, with my terrible eyesight it doesn't look right on my own images.
I thought I got the impression from something someone mentioned recently that they sharpen the full size image and then resize to post in here. That might actually make sense because you then have plenty of room to do the painterly effect. I guess I'm stuck with the words that sharpening is always supposed to be the very last thing you do, so I'm resizing before sharpening. If I'm doing it wrong then no wonder I'm having so many problems! 
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22/Sep/09, 4:12 pm
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Re: Sharpening
When you reduce files to a smaller size for web or even printing, it is usually necessary to sharpen as the reduction in file size looses sharpness. In my tutorial it does say always keep an unsharpned version of your edit, you can reduce that one, save it with a different name to always keep the unsharp version and reduce and sharpen for web. There are lots of ways to sharpen files, some cameras take kindly to differing variation's of doing this , try different ways till you find one that suits.
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Hmmm... thank you Martin. I'm still a tad confused and having such poor sight doesn't help. I'm short sighted in one eye and long sighted in the other rendering me effectively stereo blind. I can see the lovely sharpness on some of the images in here, but I can't seem to duplicate it. I've just done a tree taken on Sunday and bunged it in Landscapes. Perhaps I'll get some more specific advice from that 
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