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I have an anomaly with PS2, I haven't upgraded to CS3 yet.
Here's what's happening...
I've built a four layer sharpening action and on each layer an edge mask appears. Each layer provides progressively more sharpening kept in check with the masks.
The masks are created by using Calculation involving usually red and green channels then blurred slightly. The blurred area then has Find Edges run on it and then inverted. Curves against this channel darkens the darks, to avoid sharpening, and whitens the whites, the edges that do want sharpening.
At the end of the action I group the sharpening layers into a group set at Pass Through 66% opacity.
Prior to the sharpening layers I have a duped layer created set to Overlay mode then a High Pass filter runs prompting the user to choose the amount setting - 3' to 5' range works well.
So when all this is done you end up with an enormous file but a sharpening routine that, on my images at least, works very well. However, flatten this entire document and it grows in size from the original image size and I can't figure out why?
Example approximate sizes coming up from my Nikon D2''...
DNG file after converting from NEF = 8.5meg
Open in PS this usually jumps to 57.4meg and if I save a flattened file it returns to 57.4
Using my sharpening action and then flattening the file size jumps to 134mb!! What IS going on here?
If anyone wants a copy let me know and you can have a play just make sure you have enough memory.
I have an anomaly with PS2, I haven't upgraded to CS3 yet.
Here's what's happening...
I've built a four layer sharpening action and on each layer an edge mask appears. Each layer provides progressively more sharpening kept in check with the masks.
The masks are created by using Calculation involving usually red and green channels then blurred slightly. The blurred area then has Find Edges run on it and then inverted. Curves against this channel darkens the darks, to avoid sharpening, and whitens the whites, the edges that do want sharpening.
At the end of the action I group the sharpening layers into a group set at Pass Through 66% opacity.
Prior to the sharpening layers I have a duped layer created set to Overlay mode then a High Pass filter runs prompting the user to choose the amount setting - 3' to 5' range works well.
So when all this is done you end up with an enormous file but a sharpening routine that, on my images at least, works very well. However, flatten this entire document and it grows in size from the original image size and I can't figure out why?
Example approximate sizes coming up from my Nikon D2''...
DNG file after converting from NEF = 8.5meg
Open in PS this usually jumps to 57.4meg and if I save a flattened file it returns to 57.4
Using my sharpening action and then flattening the file size jumps to 134mb!! What IS going on here?
If anyone wants a copy let me know and you can have a play just make sure you have enough memory.