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Click OK when the image outlines the significant edges in white and most everything else isВ black. You may need to play around with the exact positions of the sliders. Bring the black point up and the white point down to filter out any insignificant edges. Open the Levels dialog ( Image -> Colors -> Levels). The next step is to adjust the tonality a little so that areas that need sharpening are really white and anything that doesnвЂ™t need sharpening at all is reallyВ black. Besides, with a high enough edge detection parameter (here 6) you will avoid detecting random CCD noise asВ edges. Once you have converted to greyscale you may not be able to detect that edge any more. My thinking is that there may be an edge in color, but not tonality (e.g. The premise there (my guess) is that perhaps you donвЂ™t want to find noise as edges. Note: in some tutorials they recommend converting to greyscale and then running the edge detection filter. This image is going to become our sharpeningВ mask. Now convert the edges image to grayscale by right clicking on it and selecting Image -> Mode -> Grayscale. In the Edge Detect dialog box, select a parameter value of the appropriate size for the edges in your image. Right-click and select Filters -> Edge Detect -> Edge. WeвЂ™ll need them later, but you donвЂ™t want to accidentally pick one of them in the next fewВ steps. If you donвЂ™t have the вЂњAs layersвЂќ option, I suggest you minimize (but not close) the hue and saturation (or A and B) windows. It really doesnвЂ™t matter if you do it this way the layers way just reduces the clutter on your screen.

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Note 2: in the older version of the decompose plug-in there is no вЂњAs layersвЂќ checkbox instead it will create the three channels as separate windows rather than three layers in one window. DonвЂ™t worry if you donвЂ™t have it HSV works greatВ too. The LAB option was not in my initial version of GIMP (ver 1.2.1), but I got the newer version of the plug-in at the GIMP Plug-in Registry and compiled it myself. For any reference to the вЂњ LABвЂќ image or вЂњluminosityвЂќ channel below, substitute the вЂњ HSVвЂќ image/вЂќvalueвЂќ window. In that case use HSV (hue/saturation/value) instead. Note 1: if you happen to have an older version of the compose/decompose plug-in it may not have the LAB option. This will allow us to isolate and sharpen the luninosity channel which is a) the most important, and b) should be the cleanest in terms ofВ noise.ДЄt this point I usually turn off visibility of the A and B layers in the Layers dialog by clicking on theВ вЂњeyesвЂќ. This will create a new window with the image decomposed into the Luminosity (вЂњbrightnessвЂќ), A and B channels as 3 layers. Check the вЂњAs layersвЂќ checkbox (see Note 2) and click OK. In the decompose dialog box, select LAB (or HSV see Note 1). Right-click on the duplicate image and select Image -> Mode -> Decompose. You can open it later to compare to theВ result. It might be wise to minimize the original image window now. Step 2 В¶Дuplicate the image by pressing Ctrl+D or right-click and select Image -> Duplicate. Sharpening should always be the last step that youВ do. Note: be sure to do any other editing that you want to on the image first, especially downsampling or upsampling (resizing). It is noticeably soft, probably due to bad autofocus. HereвЂ™s the original image loaded into GIMP. I didnвЂ™t want to shrink the image windows down like I usually do for the other tutorials since sharpening and noise are subtle and really show up better at these largerВ sizes. You may want to maximize your browser window to properly see this tutorial. New information and comparison with the вЂњwarp sharpвЂќВ script! The Procedure В¶ I adapted it for GIMP from a Photoshop tutorial on the photography web site (great web site BTW, I recommendВ it). Giving credit where credit is due: I did not come up with this method. Then you can load the channel mask as a selection and apply the unsharp mask to just theВ edges.

create a channel mask that contains only the edges in the image.

sharpen only the luminosity channel,В and.

This technique does two вЂњsmartвЂќ things to avoid sharpeningВ noise: a blue sky-the blue channel tends to get a lot ofВ noise). Often there will be large areas of the image that you know you donвЂ™t want to sharpen (e.g.

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A really good example of this is when you have an image with a lot of high ISO noise or film grain applying across-the-board sharpening will enhance the noise/grain and make it even more visible, especially in large prints. Applying an unsharp mask to an entire image is not always appropriate.

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In this tutorial IвЂ™ll show you how to do smart sharpening of your images.