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Subject: [Leica] Lilies - jumping on the bandwagon - Neat Image
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Tue Jun 12 05:08:36 2007
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Thanks for the accolade - how much is the annual apanage?
Douglas (but you can say "Sir" to me if you like :-) )


G Hopkinson wrote:
> Douglas, I can tell you right now, you are in sooo much trouble when Ted 
> sees this message ;-)
> You have now been crowned king Technogeek of Sharpening.
>
> Great pictures though.
>
> Cheers
> Hoppy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
> [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Douglas Sharp
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 June 2007 18:18
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Lilies - jumping on the bandwagon - Neat Image
>
> Hello, Don
> thanks for your kind comments.
>
> Neat image offers (almost too many options) for noise reduction and 
> sharpening in 3 different bands and a selection of whether to do it in 
> RGB or YCrCb - the second option means you can sharpen in the luminance 
> channel alone and avoid most of the sharpen artefacts found with other 
> programs. The options, as far as I understand the fundamental idea of 
> it, are low, medium and high-pass filters and when you set to 
> "conservative" sharpening this probably prevents clipping around the 
> respective Nyquist frequencies or cut-off points for the respective 
> filters, or it tapers the flanks of the spectra more strongly. I also 
> suspect that the noise filters are in reject mode with a mix-back 
> function and that sharpening is purely pass - only the programmer knows, 
> and he must be good.
>
> On the other hand, it may be some clever use of FK filtering (frequency 
> /wavenumber) or a deconvolution process, or a complex random noise 
> attenuation program, but one thing is clear to me, whoever worked it out 
> hasn't been looking at pictures, it's all physics and math that ALSO 
> works on images. In spectral analysis, digital technologies couldn't 
> care less whether it's a signal, a frequency or a colour - it's all just 
> numbers.
> I only wish I had had something as efficient as Neat Image for cleaning 
> up noisy seismic data.
>
> http://www.neatimage.com/
>
> Cheers
> Douglas
>
>
> Don Dory wrote:
>   
>> The end result is very nice indeed.  When you say you sharpened in three
>> frequencies I would appreciate a little more information on that.
>>
>> On 6/11/07, Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp@gmx.de> wrote:
>>     
>>> So many lovely lilies!!!
>>> Motivation enough to go deep into my "back catalogue" of flowers to dig
>>> up some of my own.
>>>
>>> A little abstract, and far removed from a garden context - hope you like
>>> them.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/_MG_1143_edited-2.jpg.html
>>>  
>>>
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/_MG_1182_edited-3.jpg.html
>>>  
>>>
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/_MG_1091_edited-6.jpg.html
>>>  
>>>
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/New-Old-Pictures/_MG_1136_edited-3.jpg.html
>>>  
>>>
>>>
>>> Comments welcome
>>> Douglas
>>> (before anyone asks - yes, there was a fair amountIMG:  of Photoshopping
>>> involved)
>>>
>>>
>>>
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In reply to: Message from mads.christensen at gmx.net (Mads Christensen) ([Leica] Water lilies)
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