![]() ![]() Toggle the layer visibility for best visual comparison (easier to see than the side-by-side example crops below) Note that I used Focus Magic at 300 amount to. I included the AMaZE rendition sharpened with Topaz Detail’s Deblur as a comparison to the Focus Magic Sharpened layer. That being said, Nik Sharpener Pro is really top shelf outstanding, but like the OP, I'm not willing to pay that much (or more for the entire package just to get it). Layered Tiff (1.3GB) This is the above raw image converted. Of course, YMMV.Īlthough I've not used FocusMagic, I agree 100% with tclune's comments on InFocus and Detail 2. ![]() I suspect that someone who was more fully immersed in USM operation could do the same thing Detail does without using a separate tool, but the controls of USM just don't "speak to me" like Detail's controls do. It is a completely different approach from FocusMagic (it seems to be an USM utility, while FocusMaigic - like InFocus - is a deconvolution.) I typically use Detail 2 for my middle-phase sharpening (after I've straightened, cropped, tone-mapped, and globally denoised, but before I do any mask work. It is easy to control and the adjustments make sense. standalone application for superior Image upsampling, made for batch resizing your images up to 6x It uses the power of Topaz’s proprietary Artistic Intelligence engine to make sharper and clearer upscaled images more than traditional upscaling tools. The preview window is quite small, which can be a bit of a pain sometimes, but overall I find it very easy to get just what I want with very little fiddling. The controls are quite limited - you set the pixel radius in integer increments and can apply a blending percent to the result if you like. Of the various alternatives to Nik discussed here, Topaz Labs (affiliate link). The interface for FocusMagic is very simple. FocalBlade is the sharpening tool that would match Nik Sharpener Pro. So I am collapsing the image into 8bpc anyway at that point. This isn't as serious a limitation as it sounds, because I use it during the final sharpening before output. I really like FocusMagic, but it is strictly 8-bits per channel. But that may just be because I've never really "grokked" the controls. I have found InFocus to be of absolutely no use to me, as it is very hard to use and does not seem to do a very good job. I've used Topaz InFocus and FocusMagic, as well as Topaz Detail 2.
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