Eric Flyvbjerg wrote:No, not yet.
Sharpening will decrease the quality of GANE. For the future, however, we are planing to support GANE and USM at the same time.
Eric.
Dear Eric,
does it mean that it's generally not advisable (even in Photoshop) to sharpen a "GAINed" scan?
I lately experimented using the new GAIN tool to reduce grain aliasing while scanning negatives (b/w & color):
Though I noticed that some images with high-contrast areas showed some highligting and strange colorisation of pixels after GAINing them it helped reducing grain. Nevertheless the inability to use the USM tool with GAIN resulted in a seemingly unsharp and somehow flat (reduced contrast) appearance of my negative scans.
Photoshop's USM did not do the trick, so I turned to the High-pass tool, which helped to get contast and sharpness back.
Another way in reducing grain in negative scans is Silverfast's USM and the Descreening tool.
However either way still does not get me on par with printing pictures the "old-way" in a lab.
I wonder if a combination of the otherwise great GAIN tool with SF's NegaFix, USM and Descreening tool while scanning in high res. can to the seemingly impossible:
get decent scans from our negs???
