Some time in the past, your (Jonathan's) contribution to a thread on sharpening mentioned some commercial software that you use before printing. Could you please mention it again.
From the Reference Manual on Multipass Sharpening--"A blur threshold of 0% eliminates all blurring and consequently the blurred image is just a copy of the input image, and this in turn suppresses all sharpening. A blur threshold of 100% blurs the entire input image more or less uniformly,... " It seems like what is being called a blur threshold is more properly named a blur limit. Is it too late to change the name on the transformation?
Sharpening
Moderator: jsachs
Re: Sharpening
I highly recommend Topaz Photo (https://www.topazlabs.com/topaz-photo) -- they are having a Black Friday sale currently. You can download a demo version if you want to try it out on one of your own images.
For images I am serious about, assuming I want them really sharp, I run the original file through Topaz Photo and then edit my script file to use the pre-sharpened image as a starting point instead of the original unsharpened version. Then I will generally reduce any fine detail sharpening I have applied to the original file to avoid over-sharpening. The Topaz software often boosts noise or unwanted texture in skies, so it is a good idea to mask these out using their software before letting it sharpen the image.
For images I am serious about, assuming I want them really sharp, I run the original file through Topaz Photo and then edit my script file to use the pre-sharpened image as a starting point instead of the original unsharpened version. Then I will generally reduce any fine detail sharpening I have applied to the original file to avoid over-sharpening. The Topaz software often boosts noise or unwanted texture in skies, so it is a good idea to mask these out using their software before letting it sharpen the image.
Jonathan Sachs
Digital Light & Color
Digital Light & Color