[Leica] Focus Magic

[Mark Rabiner]

I think we all make great photos with Photoshop despite the fact thet we use an ultra-small fraction of its features, powers, to do so..
I think in few cases do party plug ins do things that could not otherwise be done with the tools right there in photoshop.
And like the Borg if these filters or plug ins were any good Adobe would assimilate them right into the program and you'd not have to worry about the day that Kai or Nic or Neat gets shot down.

 
 

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Mark William Rabiner
Photographer

On 9/21/19, 10:57 PM, "LUG on behalf of Jim Nichols" <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:

    Mark, I find there are three tools, configured as PhotoShop filters, that serve me well:  Focus Magic, Neat Image, and the Nik Suite.
    
    Sent from my iPhone
    
    > On Sep 21, 2019, at 9:43 PM, Mark Rabiner <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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