How would you post-process this?

JoeEcker · #1 09-29-2004, 10:52 AM

I am in a quandry. Ever so often I come across a picture
that I just can't seem to get right. In August, I photographed
a family reunion and sold quite a few prints. My customer has
now come back and is not pleased with one of the prints.

I think I may have gone overboard with the sharpening, because
they asked for them to be softer.

I'm printing this on a Kodak 8500 and am burning through
quite a few pages trying to get it "right".

The best results that I've been able to come up with is
by following these post-processing steps:

1) Transfer photo from EOS EVU to Photoshop as a 16bit tiff
with the following parameters:
- Exposure Comp - zero
- White Balance - Daylight
- Contrast - standard
- Saturation - standard
- Tone - zero
- Color space sRGB
- Sharpness - standard

2) Run levels 16/1.0/246

3) Run shadow/highlight 5%/75%/30px, +40 color correc.

4) Trim the photo to 8x10 proportions, then do image size
to enlarge it to 8x10 - 314dpi using bicubic sharper

5) Run plain old sharpen twice

6) Add a logo

7) Flatten and print

I've tried a number of other sharpening techniques, but they
all seem to introduce quite a few artifacts. Is there anyone
with some spare time that might be able to give this image
a quick once-over? I would greatly appreciate any help....

Here are the URL's(Warning! Large files!!):

Processed 8x10 tiff 8bit - 23 MB
Original converted 16bit tiff - no processing 36 MB
10d RAW file 7 MB

Thanks again,

-Joe

Gary_Cooper · #2 09-29-2004, 10:10 PM

Hi Joe
I downloaded the raw and tiff file and run the raw thru photoshop. Is there some way i can upload it to you . I dont have a host site that will allow a large file like that so if you have a site i can upload it toI am more than willing.
Regards
Gary
Ps theres a big difference between your and mine although I cropped the same as you...