On 2013-03-23 11:33:44 -0700, Alfred Molon said:

In article , Eric Stevens
says...
Have you tried High Pass sharpening?
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tu...arpening.shtml

Just gave it a quick try and it doesn't seem to be better than USM.

Using high Pass sharpening can be tricky, and it is very easy to over
do it ending up with an obviously over sharpened image, but done subtly
it can make an image "POP".
How bad is the OoF problem you are trying to fix?

Sometimes applying the USM selectively to the subject only, and
tweaking contrast and levels can differentiate the subject from the
background a little better. Even a bit of localized/selective
tone-mapping can help sometimes. However, for the truly OoF there is
little one can do to save the shot.

NIK have a few tools in Color Efex Pro 4 and NIK Sharpener Pro 2 which
might help.
Color Efex Pro 4 has a "Detail extractor" filter and a "Tonal contrast"
filter which have helped me with some of my problematic shots in the
past, and can be applied selectively.

Sharpener Pro 2 has a RAW "Pre-sharpener" and an output sharpener
neither of which I use, as to my eye the just seem to add too much
noise and don't really do the sharpening job I want.

If you care to post link to the problem file, either RAW or of
reasonable JPEG quality, I am sure that the tinkerers among us will see
if we can come up with a solution.

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Regards,

Savageduck