vuescan sharpening with minolta 5400

[keith taylor]

i'm using vuescan 8.1.4 at present and have noticed if you check the
sharpening radio button (in filtering) then it makes absolutely no
difference to a scan at 5400dpi, however i changed the output down to
4000dpi and it does sharpen up the scans quite nicely.

any ideas?

i know you shouldn't really sharpen at the time of scanning, but have
always found 5400dpi scans with the minolta a little soft, vuescan
doesn't give you any control over the degree of sharpening, but at
4000dpi the results look quite good on screen.

thanks,

keith

 

[Alan Browne]

i'm using vuescan 8.1.4 at present and have noticed if you check the
sharpening radio button (in filtering) then it makes absolutely no
difference to a scan at 5400dpi, however i changed the output down to
4000dpi and it does sharpen up the scans quite nicely.

I won't adress what you are doing but I reccomend:

Do all you cropping and editing, set your levels and colors (at largest size),
etc. in photoshop.

Save without sharpenning as a temp master.

USM (Unsharp mask)... takes a while to learn, but well worth it.

Save.

Re-size for print; USM (new settings) save new fil.

Re-size for display; USM (new settings) save new file.

Re-size for thumbnail; USM (new settings) save new file.

Lotsa work? Yep.

5400 soft at 5400? that's on your monitor. Do a USM at 5400 that percpetibly
sharpents without creating halos. Print a detail clipping (focused areas) from
that size at 300 dpi. Looks pretty good.

Cheers,
Alan