Windows 10: Sharpening

When I leave my laptop alone for a bit, the current app starts sharpening and becoming ugly:Ive tried updating my graphics drivers, checking my system for viruses, and rebooting multiple times but nothings helped.

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Sharpen An Image ?

First of all do any conversions you need but forget PNG or JPG as these are designed to create and image for use on the web where the resolution of screen and thus the picture is quite low (72DPI for Apple and 96DPI for Windows ), I would suggest that you only make one conversion step to Uncompressed TIFF format or at least keep conversions to an absolute minimum as each conversion degrades the image .

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I sharpen images by use of a combination of the Sharpening and Noise Reduction tools

Always work on a 100% view of the image as any other will not show the real state of the pixels

With adobe tools the both mentioned have a range of 0 - 100, (I assume %), what I have found is the best image result is achieved by making the total of the two tools equal 100, ie use the sharpen tool and set to eg 55, then use the Noise reduction and set this to 45 - play about with these values to give the best image you can - Both of the tools have other controls which control the area of influence of the tool and these can be adjusted to suit.

Always remember to regularly switch image size to your required output size to show the actual progress.

Free graphics packages such as GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program may also have reasonable tools for this task, and there is also, the now free, (thanks Google), Google Nik Collection but this needs a container application to use their Sharpener Pro, (time to check out the 30 Day Free trial of Lightroom or Photoshop Maybe ? *Wink )

 

Sharpen An Image ?

Thanks for that, typically it is that one image that I am interested in, but I can't see any way to sharpen it enough to be able to read the text.

 

Sharpen An Image ?

Yikes. If the file has artifacts like those in JPEGs, sharpening it will probably yield a real mess.