I will get the new TLR Professional Sharpening Actions on the site this week. Documentation and video will follow.

I have the capture actions and creative actions being tested now.

The capture sharpening action sets have five versions: low resolution digital cameras (LRDC), medium resolution digital cameras (MRDC), high resolution digital cameras (HRDC), small film scans (SFS), and large film scans (LFS). Within each action set, you can select edge mask sharpening, surface mask sharpening, and combined sharpening. You can select four different mask widths.

How do these capture sharpening actions compare to the scripts in the TLR Professional Sharpening Toolkit? The new sharpening actions have the default settings used by the scripts.

The creative sharpening action set includes clarity enhancement, creative sharpening for the five sources (LRDC, MRDC, HRDC, SFS, and LFS), portrait sharpening, landscape sharpening, and texture sharpening.

Creative sharpening tuned for source is unique to these new actions. Even the scripts in he current version of the TLR Professional Sharpening Toolkit do not do that. This keeps the Radius setting for USM consistent across capture sharpening and creative sharpening.

There will be four output sharpenings: halftone, contone, inkjet, and Web/multimedia. These use the same methods and settings as the output sharpening scripts in the TLR Professional Sharpening Toolkit.

It also means that everything is consistent with the settings and techniques in the eBook/Video Sharpening Your Photographs.

I cut two videos today. I hope to get them edited and online tomorrow or Thursday. One is a video version of the recent tip, Adjusting TLR Sharpening Effects. The other is a brief tutorial on using Photoshop Blend If sliders to limit layer effects.

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