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Subject: [Leica] Focus Magic
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 22:51:34 -0400
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I see now "Shake Reduction" seems to be a thing for poor people who find 
themselves with a lens which no Image Stabilization (IS) or Vibration 
Reduction (VR)  on it. "Shake Reduction" gives you IS or VR after the fact 
you can do at home on the kitchen table.
Maybe I'll try it because after getting all kinds of cool VR zooms I'm now 
shooting with gold band 1.8G's, gold band Nikkor's. The 20, 24, 28, 35, 50 
and 85mm lenses.
It's slightly Leica like not zooming.
 
 

-- 

Mark William Rabiner
Photographer

?On 9/21/19, 10:43 PM, "LUG on behalf of Mark Rabiner" 
<lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of mark at 
rabinergroup.com> wrote:

    In the photoshop Sub Menu List under "Sharpen" are 6 options:
    Shake Reduction
    Sharpen
    Sharpen Edges
    Sharpen More
    Smart Sharpen
    Unsharp Mask
    I remember the 16 Kai's tools there was sharpen tool I felt was much 
better than Unsharp mask. When that tanked I thought I was a fish out of 
water but unsharp mask turned out to be better when I got better at using it
    I used to play around with the 5 other photoshop sharpen options worlds 
unto themselves but I've fallen into plain vanilla "Unsharp Mask" for the 
past full decade and more.
    "Shake Reduction" was not even on the menu list last time I looked. But 
I never look. Maybe it was?
    I think it could take me a couple of weeks to perfect the wonders of the 
new "Shake Reduction" and maybe it would be worth it. I feel like its dumb 
of me to not belong to a news list where I can see what people think about 
the various sharpening options in Photoshop and how they compare to third 
party add ons. 
    The problem with my use of add ons is I'm always afraid I'm going to 
like them. Because they're all here today gone tomorrow. I could spend a 
summer in a summer camp crash course on sharpening options already in 
photoshop.
    Thing is my pix are sharp enough. Sometimes I select a small area and 
sharpen it twice. A very uncool thing to do but I have no shame.
    
    .
    
    
     
     
    
    -- 
    
    Mark William Rabiner
    Photographer
    
    ?On 9/17/19, 5:34 PM, "LUG on behalf of Tina Manley via LUG" 
<lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at 
leica-users.org> wrote:
    
        It's hard to tell the difference in a small jpeg on the internet but 
both
        of these do a good job:
        
        Smart Sharpen:  https://pbase.com/tinamanley/image/169782435
        
        Sharpen Ai:  https://pbase.com/tinamanley/image/169782436
        
        I'll probably end up using Sharpen Ai most often because it's a LR 
plug-in.
        
        Thanks, guys!!
        
        Tina
        
        On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 1:57 PM Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> 
wrote:
        
        > PESO:
        >
        > I recently had to reinstall Windows 10 and all of my Photoshop 
plug-ins
        > had to be reinstalled, too.  The only one I've had problems with 
is Focus
        > Magic which I use a lot.  I get a runtime error:
        > Runtime Error (at 5:198):
        > Internal Error: Failed to expand shell folder constant "userdocs"
        >
        > The software company is no help just saying that they've never 
seen that
        > error before and have no suggestions.  I'm tired of messing with 
it and
        > started looking for a similar program.  I downloaded SmartDeblur 
but it is
        > awful and nothing like Focus Magic.
        >
        > Can anybody suggest a replacement for Focus Magic??
        >
        > TIA
        >
        > Tina
        >
        > --
        > Tina Manley
        > www.tinamanley.com
        > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley
        > 
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        >
        >
        >
        >
        
        -- 
        Tina Manley
        www.tinamanley.com
        http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley
        
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