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4 Responses to “tftf_show04 - color management / sharpening”

1. 1 pete
   May 17th, 2005 at 6:20 am

   Hi Christoph,

   I’ve enjoyed listening to several of your programs. Please keep up the good work you are doing. In program 4 you say that wiziWyg is free, but it appears to be on sale for $249. Please clarify.

   Thanks,
   Pete

2. 2 Administrator
   May 17th, 2005 at 10:10 am

   Hi Pete,

   WiziWYG is free for visual calibration as described on my show. Here’s confirmation from Praxisoft’s support line:

   just a quick question regarding the wiziwyg product. is it free to use if I
only use the visual monitor profiling, or will I have to purchase it?

   thanks,
christoph marquardt

   Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 07:26:57 -0400
Subject: Re: wiziwyg cost?
From: Brian techsupport@praxisoft.com
To: Chris Marquardt info@tipsfromthetopfloor.com

   Christoph,

   Yes, it is free as far as visually calibrating your monitor(s). You'll need
to purchase it in order to build scanner and printer profiles.

   Best regards,
Brian

3. 3 Ed Hidden
   May 29th, 2005 at 4:12 am

   thanks for doing this Podcast. I’m working on “getting caught up”.

   You said in this edition about unsharp being the choice for professionals everywhere (or something to that affect.)

   While unsharp mask is an excellent method, I’m fond of the “High Pass Sharpening” method.

   In Photoshop, you can duplicate your “background layer” and select “Filter/Other/High Pass”.

   Select a size of 1 or 2… basically enough that you bring our definition but while keeping the image preview “gray” and as little color as possible. Too much “color” in the filter preview will make the sharpening too obvious and the point is to make it look sharp, not processed.

   After clicking ok, set the layer apply method to “Hard Light” and you’ll see that the image is sharpened. If the effect is too strong, adjust the opacity of the layer.

   I’ve also found Fred Mirand’s IntelliSharpen to be another great Sharpening process, but it is not free, but worth every penny in my opinion.

   Great work. Keep it up… I’ll keep listening!

4. 4 Allan
   Jan 15th, 2007 at 10:23 pm

   Thanks for the shows!

   I’m re listening to some of the early ones again, and had a look for wiziWyg - it seems to have disappeared as does praxisoft.com

   Allan

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