Fireworks Plugin

Details:

Rating:  4.5	Subject Knowledge:  0.0
Size: 0 MB	Date Added: 2/21/2006
Author: AmphiSoft	Last Update: 2/21/2006
License: Shareware	Price: $29
OS: Win95,Win98,WinME,WinNT 4.x,Windows2000,WinXP,Windows2003

Summary:
Photoshop plugin for advanced photo sharpening without forming halos. Provides both object edge sharpen and general sharpen algorithms.

Description:
Photoshop plugin for advanced photo sharpening without forming halos. Provides both object edge sharpen and general sharpen algorithms. Fully compatible with various image editors, like Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Fireworks, JASC, Corel and Ulead image editors, and numerous freeware like IrfanView and XnView. Plugin work with 8 bit per channel and 16 bit per channel RGB images.

Black dots represent actual color values in test image (special program was made to read them and plot the figures above), grey and red lines - smooth interpolation between them. Red lines show values outside original image range, that is, the halo we are talking about. As you can see, regular Photoshop "Unsharp Mask" filter produce halo, while "AS Photo Sharpen" makes color gradations sharper without introducing "out of range" color samples.

While in printing using regular AM halftone screens (especially rough screens of laser printers, or newspaper quality offset print) halo is not a big problem, since halftoning ruins many fine details (including most of halos) anyway, it becomes a problem in more delicate output, and look especially bad on the Web, when someone tries to make detailed image of limited size. "AS Photo Sharpen" is the tool that allow photographer to avoid such a problem.