Too sharp

Yea i know but without the original file there’s nothing you can do to remove what you’ve added. I’m not sure you can go thru the History in photoshop and delete what was done unless you have a psd file.

If the original file has been lost then to be honest, the image may as well just be written off rather than mess around trying to ‘unsharp’ it. There comes a point where you process an image so much that anything else will just make it look worse rather than better, and that is what I think Grey Area is getting at. Less processing always produces better images. Always!

Paul

I don’t think that’s a very good idea, Larry.

That would just be adding more processing steps, and more processing steps = reduced image quality.

Yea i know but without the original file there’s nothing you can do to remove what you’ve added. I’m not sure you can go thru the History in photoshop and delete what was done unless you have a psd file.

You could try adding Gaussian Blur or Median Filter in small amounts,that may help.

I don’t think that’s a very good idea, Larry.

That would just be adding more processing steps, and more processing steps = reduced image quality.

You could try adding Gaussian Blur or Median Filter in small amounts,that may help.

I use Corel pro for Cropping and the levels.I then go to CS3 for resizing,Dust spot removal and Sharpening.

Is there a specific reason for that? As soon as you save your cropped, brightness/contrast adjusted image you lose quality, but then you’re opening it in another program, doing further editing, saving again and losing even more quality! It makes much more technical sense to do every step of editing at the same time, in the same program, and do as few steps as possible.

Paul

I use Corel pro for Cropping and the levels.I then go to CS3 for resizing,Dust spot removal and Sharpening.

Why would you use CS3 and Corel Pro? :confused:

I’ve used Corel Pro X2 in the past and I found it’s sharpening processes, including USM, to be quite heavy-handed. Are you doing your sharpening in Corel Pro?

Try Jid Webb’s excellent Photoshop sharpening workflow, if you haven’t already done so.

Edited to add: If I were to make any criticism of your image, I’d say that it was a tad underexposed rather than oversharpened.