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Another Deconvolution Option: Topaz InFocus
I usually use a touch of focus magic on the L channel, but this new Topaz plugin looks interesting http://www.topazlabs.com/infocus/ and there is a special price right now Nov 22 10 12:56 pm Link I saw that and tried to download the trial to check it out... me and 10 million others apparently. The servers couldn't handle it. Nov 22 10 03:58 pm Link just got it, and it's ok, it definitely can sharpen a photo up (sorry if i'm using the wrong terms), but there seems to be a bit of fringe between the face and hair on the photo i tried it out on real quickly, maybe i've got the settings too high. Nov 22 10 05:00 pm Link Benjamin Lambert wrote: For focus magic I never go above 2 pixels - usually I keep it to 1 pixel Nov 22 10 07:52 pm Link I like it... reminds me alot of Topaz Detail... but simpler Nov 22 10 10:48 pm Link The samples there on their website look pretty amazing. Nov 23 10 10:08 am Link NothingIsRealButTheGirl wrote: Do you see a significant improvement at just 1 pixel? Wait, maybe that's a stupid question seeing that it's what you use and your photos look great Nov 23 10 12:38 pm Link I tried to install Focus Magic on my new computer only to discover it does not support any 64-bit OS. So I bought this Topaz version while the price is still $40 off Nov 28 10 11:58 pm Link NothingIsRealButTheGirl wrote: How do you find the quality of results to compare? Nov 29 10 02:43 am Link SRB Photo wrote: Pros: Nov 29 10 01:20 pm Link NothingIsRealButTheGirl wrote: Though I haven't spent as much time with Focus Magic as you to make direct comparison, those are similar to my own thoughts. I'm amazed by the PSF recovery it's pulling off, but am disappointed by the noise control in the actual deconvolution (they have the code in the other plugins - use it!). Nov 29 10 03:54 pm Link Seems to work fine on a Mac at work as far as GUI bugs go. Had no luck taking the motion blur out of a steadily (but too rapidly) panning shot across inanimate objects. (the first frame wasn't good enough so I didn't bother trying it on the rest of the frames in the shot) Nov 29 10 06:16 pm Link I've been playing with it, and it seems to depend on the photo: works better with some than others. First time that's ever happened (note: I'm being sarcastic here.) Looked into Focus Magic as mentioned above: doesn't work with any 64 bit OS's and worse, on a Mac requires either a PowerPC Mac or Rosetta (PowerPC emulation) on an Intel Mac. Nov 29 10 06:26 pm Link Got a chance to test this. Customer ordered an image that was out of focus. I actually gave them something else (constructed a new one from other images of the same), but it's interesting to see what this program comes up with. I haven't used it much, so on this one I let the program make the correction automatically. (my try at focus correction kinda sucked  )   Not too bad, but no 8x10's in it's future... Dec 07 10 11:57 am Link Smedley Whiplash wrote: not bad, you've had better luck than i have with it, i'll have to play with it some more. Dec 07 10 07:58 pm Link I use Win7ULT-64bit, and I tried focusmagic (I heard about this software from you long ago) as a plugin to IrfanView, and it works just fine to me. IrfanView can open any new NEF RAW Nikon files (type "T" to open its file viewer to see LARGE icons in 64-bit via 32-bit exe), and after sharpening I save it into TIFF and open in Photoshop if I need to do something else. NothingIsRealButTheGirl wrote: Dec 07 10 09:31 pm Link NothingIsRealButTheGirl wrote: Qt does not work with Wacom Dec 10 10 11:10 am Link The Space Cowboy wrote: I've long since moved on to Topaz, but Focus Magic is finally coming out with a 64-bit version FWIW... Feb 20 13 04:29 pm Link I think I might try it, it's very intriguing and does well at keeping noise low with pretty amazing results Feb 20 13 08:28 pm Link |
