Comments | linwenilid: Over-sharpened, Part Two.

linwenilid

Over-sharpened, Part Two.

May 11, 2006 14:54

Hot on the heels of the over-sharpening drama in a previous post comes a sort-of solution I gathered from your kind replies. I duplicated the layer, Gaussian-blurred it to 4.0 and set it to Soft Light. The results are not very visible, but I think they look better than before. What do you think?

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missravenx May 11 2006, 20:58:18 UTC

I'm not sure I see any difference. Sorry. :/

pullyourtangles May 11 2006, 21:03:26 UTC

i have to agree.
i looked really hard.. and i don't really see a differnce :\

six_two_four May 11 2006, 21:07:12 UTC

I think the colors pop more with the soft light layer, but I see no real difference in sharpness.

linwenilid May 11 2006, 21:38:35 UTC

AAAAAARRRGHHH!!!! But they did look different! Not completely different, though... *sigh*

Back to the workshop then, I guess.

(would you people mind I post yet another time with results?)

walkingxorgasm May 11 2006, 22:59:10 UTC

I think they look clearer.

noctuidae May 11 2006, 23:31:49 UTC

Blurring at 4.0 isn't going to do much. It will make the colours softer and in some cases make finer lines disappear, but the overall sharpness of the thicker lines of the original image will remain because you blurred your layer too much.

I think the problem here is that you've chosen starting images with very fine lines - hair and noses, for example - and that the initial sharpening pixelated those fine lines. Blurring an additional layer at 4.0 is only going to change the colour quality of the icon, not the pixelisation of the fine lines.

I'd suggest sharpening last, after you've done everything you want to do to your icon, if you're not doing that already.

I did some fiddling with one of your icons and came up with this:

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a_life_verbatim May 12 2006, 05:43:50 UTC

that, to me, looks really blurry (mostly the text).

it sucks that everyone has different monitors :(

noctuidae May 12 2006, 14:42:24 UTC

:( That's crazy. I sent it to a friend before I posted it, to view on her monitor, and it looked non-blurry there, even the text. So a big, fat 'yes!' to the monitor thing.

a_life_verbatim May 13 2006, 05:12:34 UTC

What kind of monitor are you using? I'm using my laptop's LCD monitor but from what I've seen on this thread (and the one before), laptop people seem to have the yuckier monitors :/

I wish I could take a photo of my monitor and show you what it looks like, I really want to know how much of a difference there is in sharpness/bluriness.

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