[Leica] Focus Magic

[Jim Nichols]

Mark, I find there are three tools, configured as PhotoShop filters, that serve me well:  Focus Magic, Neat Image, and the Nik Suite.

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> On Sep 21, 2019, at 9:43 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
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> 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
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> 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:
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>    Smart Sharpen:  https://pbase.com/tinamanley/image/169782435
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>    Sharpen Ai:  https://pbase.com/tinamanley/image/169782436
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>    I'll probably end up using Sharpen Ai most often because it's a LR plug-in.
> 
>    Thanks, guys!!
> 
>    Tina
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>>    On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 1:57 PM Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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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