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Product Description:
PhotoKit SHARPENER is a Photoshop plug-in providing a complete "Sharpening Workflow" for photographic images. Other products may provide useful sharpening tools, but only PhotoKit SHARPENER provides a complete "Sharpening Workflow" . From capture to output, PhotoKit SHARPENER intelligently produces the optimum sharpness on any image, from any source, reproduced on any output device. But PhotoKit SHARPENER also provides the creative controls to address the requirements of individual images and the individual tastes of users.
What's new in this version:
Update for Photoshop CS3 compatibility. Also note that activation has been added to the product as well as the ability to use serial numbers cross-platfom.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4.8 or higher
- Adobe Photoshop 7, CS, CS2, or CS3
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Not a new release - Version: 1.2.6, 1/29/2008 12:00AM PST
aklein
Both PhotoKit 1.2.6 and PhotoKit Sharpener 1.2.6 have been out since 2007. PixelGenius' web site has 7/3/07 as the release date.
Forgotten how expensive it was - still worth every penny 
- Version: 1.2.6, 1/28/2008 12:00AM PST
Martin Turner--2008
I'd forgotten that this product was so expensive - $99.
On reflection, after two years of use, I'd say that it was easily worth far more than that.
On the surface of it, this script offers a set of sharpening routines which use Photoshop's built in Unsharp Masking and other tools. The interface is plain, if not ugly, and there are no fun dials to play with.
In reality, what this offers is perfection, time and again. Unlike most things to do with photographs, there are hard and fast rules with mathematical formulae for how to apply unsharp masking, and they are based not on the kind of image, but on the input type and resolution and on the output technology and resolution. I have a copy of those formulae on my desktop, but they are a pain to calculate, and easy to get wrong. They're also almost impossible to explain to a non-technical person. Photokit Sharpener offers powerfully perfect capture sharpening and output sharpening. For 80% of pictures that's all you need. For the other 20%, it also offers creative sharpening and softening, where you can play to your heart's content. It's all done non-destructively, so if it's not right, there's no problem, and you can easily switch layers on and off to see what's going on.
As a production tool, it's invaluable. Until I found Photokit Sharpener, I couldn't understand why the shots from my £3,000 Nikon with a £1,000 lens were so unsharp when reproduced as comercial offest litho print. Now I have people (journalists, photographers, designers, printers) looking at adverts, annual reports, etc, and saying "how did you get them that sharp"?
As a final end to this story, Photokit Sharpener is as good as much more expensive sharpeners, such as the one produced by Nik software. But there is one more tool which I would recommend anyone to get, which is FocusMagic. FocusMagic is a refocuser rather than sharpener — a deconvolution tool which actually calculates the original focus. Combining FocusMagic with Photokit Sharpener produces results which (in someone else's words) "literally jump off the page".
On reflection, after two years of use, I'd say that it was easily worth far more than that.
On the surface of it, this script offers a set of sharpening routines which use Photoshop's built in Unsharp Masking and other tools. The interface is plain, if not ugly, and there are no fun dials to play with.
In reality, what this offers is perfection, time and again. Unlike most things to do with photographs, there are hard and fast rules with mathematical formulae for how to apply unsharp masking, and they are based not on the kind of image, but on the input type and resolution and on the output technology and resolution. I have a copy of those formulae on my desktop, but they are a pain to calculate, and easy to get wrong. They're also almost impossible to explain to a non-technical person. Photokit Sharpener offers powerfully perfect capture sharpening and output sharpening. For 80% of pictures that's all you need. For the other 20%, it also offers creative sharpening and softening, where you can play to your heart's content. It's all done non-destructively, so if it's not right, there's no problem, and you can easily switch layers on and off to see what's going on.
As a production tool, it's invaluable. Until I found Photokit Sharpener, I couldn't understand why the shots from my £3,000 Nikon with a £1,000 lens were so unsharp when reproduced as comercial offest litho print. Now I have people (journalists, photographers, designers, printers) looking at adverts, annual reports, etc, and saying "how did you get them that sharp"?
As a final end to this story, Photokit Sharpener is as good as much more expensive sharpeners, such as the one produced by Nik software. But there is one more tool which I would recommend anyone to get, which is FocusMagic. FocusMagic is a refocuser rather than sharpener — a deconvolution tool which actually calculates the original focus. Combining FocusMagic with Photokit Sharpener produces results which (in someone else's words) "literally jump off the page".
More Than Meets The Eye... - Version: 1.2.4, 5/17/2006 11:35PM PST
j.nomograms
PhotoKit Sharpener is an excellent application. It is capable of much more than
sharpening. I have used it since version 1.2.3 and use it with every image I
print. As has been previously noted it is more than a bargain.
I only wish it was auto updating. That is a very minor complaint and the only one
I can come up with.
sharpening. I have used it since version 1.2.3 and use it with every image I
print. As has been previously noted it is more than a bargain.
I only wish it was auto updating. That is a very minor complaint and the only one
I can come up with.
