I just saw this amazing new technique for sharpening an image without making the noise worse.
Look at this video
Forget that it's done with PS/Topaz. I thought the idea of denoising a desaturated highpass copy to sharpen an image was quite brilliant. I'm not good at programming myself or have any knowledge about what's possible or not with ASP, but I instantly thought about Wavelet Denoise/Sharpen when I saw this. The problem with sharpening in ASP with the current tools/plugins is that it enhances noise one way or the other. If it's possible to apply some of the ideas into sharpening plugins or functions it could give better results on our images...
[IDEA] Sharpening by denoising a highpass copy
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[IDEA] Sharpening by denoising a highpass copy
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Re: [IDEA] Sharpening by denoising a highpass copy
hi,
the idea is indeed brilliant.
the problem i see to get this done in asp is the speed... in ASP everything is processed on the fly. in the video you see how long it takes to process each of the step for the whole image (you also know how long it takes to let full image be sharpened or denoised by ASP). in such plugin you would have to do both plus some extra steps (e.g. the high pass) in 'one' step...
so principally i think it should be possible in asp - all the steps had to be programmed in one plugin (we might ask spoilerhead, since he already has the denoise and the sharpen, high pass should be easy) - but i think it would be slow...
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the idea is indeed brilliant.
the problem i see to get this done in asp is the speed... in ASP everything is processed on the fly. in the video you see how long it takes to process each of the step for the whole image (you also know how long it takes to let full image be sharpened or denoised by ASP). in such plugin you would have to do both plus some extra steps (e.g. the high pass) in 'one' step...
so principally i think it should be possible in asp - all the steps had to be programmed in one plugin (we might ask spoilerhead, since he already has the denoise and the sharpen, high pass should be easy) - but i think it would be slow...
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Re: [IDEA] Sharpening by denoising a highpass copy
Imho this is what Wavelet Sharpen does already.
Sharpening always boils down to an amplification of the high pass part of an image.
What WS does is to combine the amplification part (the actual sharpening) with an edge based factor. (i.e. it only gets applied around edges), what imho is the same as as denoising the HP, as it won't amplify noise in smooth parts of the image. (this is the "edge" control in WS)
Sharpening always boils down to an amplification of the high pass part of an image.
What WS does is to combine the amplification part (the actual sharpening) with an edge based factor. (i.e. it only gets applied around edges), what imho is the same as as denoising the HP, as it won't amplify noise in smooth parts of the image. (this is the "edge" control in WS)
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Re: [IDEA] Sharpening by denoising a highpass copy
Thanks for the feedback Spoilerhead
I guess I haven't used the "edge" control properly then...

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