CS3 and PhotoKit Sharpen?

[Josh-H]

Anyone tried it?

CS3 is Beta - so not supported by Pixel Genius - But has anyone tried it?

[francois]

Anyone tried it?

CS3 is Beta - so not supported by Pixel Genius - But has anyone tried it?
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It works, but on a PPC machine. if you use an Intel powered Mac and need to use PPC plug-ins you must run Photoshop CS 3 in Rosetta...

Edit: on a PC, I don't know but there was a heated discussion here on the LL forums a few days ago about PS/PKS/Vista

[Dmitry]

Try Magic Sharpener. It supports CS3 for Win.
30 day free trial is

http://www.imageskill.com/magicsharpener/M...pener_Setup.exe

It allows to get dramatically improved the look of images without color halos and increased color noise.

[ronno]

Maybe you already know this, but CS3 now has Smart Filter masks, which use seperate layers, so you may not want/need to use third party sharpeners any more. There's a bunch of tutorials here:
http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=327

[digitaldog]

Anyone tried it?

CS3 is Beta - so not supported by Pixel Genius - But has anyone tried it?
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All should run fine on PPC and Windows. Intel users will need to wait a week or so (from what I've been told) for an Intel (universal binary) version OR they can run in Rosetta in the meantime.

The comment about no need for this due to smart filter layers is of course way off the mark.

[englishm]

Photokit Sharpener works just fine on a PC.  If it didn't I'd dump CS3 in a heartbeat.
PK Sharpener is far and away the best sharpening add-in available and the best $99 I've ever spent to improve by printed images.

[ronno]

The comment about no need for this due to smart filter layers is of course way off the mark.
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The reason I said this is that I do not find that the files from current Canon cameras coming out of DPP need much sharpening at all. I use PixelGenius sharpening mostly because of the seperate layers.

All I.M.O.

-ron

[Stephen Best]

The comment about no need for this due to smart filter layers is of course way off the mark.
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I've been playing around with combined capture/creative sharpening of luminosity layers converted to smart objects and the results and overall flexibility look promising ... though I think it will take a computer upgrade to make it workable with my larger images. PhotoKit Sharpener 1.x is pretty inflexible with regards to workflow, I find. It may be worth considering a cut down (and cheaper) version of Sharpener that just does (throwaway) output sharpening. I'd buy this. The current "Inkjet 360 Glossy" routine is ideal, less so "Inkjet 360 Matte" on my papers ... IMHO.

[Mark D Segal]

Photokit Sharpener works just fine on a PC.  If it didn't I'd dump CS3 in a heartbeat.
PK Sharpener is far and away the best sharpening add-in available and the best $99 I've ever spent to improve by printed images.
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I agree. With this tool there is nothing else to muck-around with and no advantage doing so.

[katemann]

I'll add my support for PK Sharpener. Works for me on a PC.

[colourperfect]

I have recently been trying out the sharpening scripts from the lights right studio. Written by Glenn Mitchel I think they are intended to match PK Sharpener feature for feature.

I found that they are not as quick but that they introduced less noise artifacts. While I haven't done multiple print comparisons they are well worh a go.

Oh yes, they are free....

Find them here http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/TLRPro...ningToolkit.htm


Ian

http://www.colourperfect.co.uk

[Schewe]

I have recently been trying out the sharpening scripts from the lights right studio. Written by Glenn Mitchel I think they are intended to match PK Sharpener feature for feature.
http://www.colourperfect.co.uk
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Correction. . .they are intended to -TRY- to match PK Sharpener...they don't. There's some nice complicated processes...but they aren't backed up by the research nor do they have "the numbers" (that were arrived at by the research).

Just to let people know, PG will have beta versions of PhotoKit, PhotoKit Sharpener and PhotoKit Color 2 available to test later this week for people running CS3 on MacIntel. These will be "beta" versions that will work using your registered serial number from previous versions.

[Tim Ernst]

Jeff:

I've been using PK and PK sharpener since day one on both and love them. Two of my five color printers work best when fed 600ppi files (the Canon ipf5000 and HP 9180). I realize you guys have put a lot of work into matching the ppi with your sharpening routines. Since they only go up to 480 will the next version have a 600ppi option, or should we just use 480 and hope for the best?

[Carl Harsch]

Just another PKSharpener satisfied customer.  I had no problems installing the PC version on CS3.  In fact, all of my PK tools work just fine on the PC.  There are many sharpening routines out there but PKSharpener is bar none, my choice to use.

[Schewe]

Since they only go up to 480 will the next version have a 600ppi option, or should we just use 480 and hope for the best?
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Pretty sure that's what Michael has found...I've sent him a UB beta so he can do some tests...we'll be making the UB version for CS3 under MacIntel available "soon'ish".

Jeff

[mikeseb]

Pretty sure that's what Michael has found...I've sent him a UB beta so he can do some tests...we'll be making the UB version for CS3 under MacIntel available "soon'ish".

Jeff
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Will this new version of PK Sharpener work with CS3 UB running on PowerPC? I'm one of the holdouts with my creaking G4 tower!

Ditto--best and easiest sharpening around.

[digitaldog]

Will this new version of PK Sharpener work with CS3 UB running on PowerPC? I'm one of the holdouts with my creaking G4 tower!
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Yes.

[Schewe]

Will this new version of PK Sharpener work with CS3 UB running on PowerPC? I'm one of the holdouts with my creaking G4 tower!
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Actually, the current version should run on PPC and Windows...we only need to rev the plug-in to get a Universal Binary to run on MacIntels...all plug-ins will need to be rev'ed to Universal Binary compiles in order to run on CS3 running natively on MacIntel.

[plugsnpixels]

I've got a screenshot and small examples from PK Sharpener here.

[trigeek]

Actually, the current version should run on PPC and Windows...we only need to rev the plug-in to get a Universal Binary to run on MacIntels...all plug-ins will need to be rev'ed to Universal Binary compiles in order to run on CS3 running natively on MacIntel.
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Have been using PK Sharpener and love it... thanks for providing it. I just switched from Windows to a Mac and I see that there is no cross platform license provision, so I will need to repurchase. When CS3 releases and you have your official release of the UB PK Sharpener, will there be a charge for this upgrade, or will it be covered under the Mac version free update path? Just trying to decide if I should hold off on the purchase.
Thanks,
Jim