[Leica] Focus Magic

Sat Sep 21 19:51:34 PDT 2019

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.

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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.

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    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
        >
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        > Tina Manley
        > www.tinamanley.com
        > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley
        > <http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html>
        > *https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/649596.html
        > <https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/649596.html>*
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        Tina Manley
        www.tinamanley.com
        http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley
        <http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html>
        *https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/649596.html
        <https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/649596.html>*

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