The question of whether aliasing counts as “fake sharpness” comes up regularly in discussions of camera resolution. In a recent post I summarized the difference between the GFX 50x and GFX 100x this way: “images are just as sharp, one has just more aliasing.” Someone objected that this must be logically flawed because aliasing creates… [Read More]
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Using Curves adjustment layers in Photoshop
The Curves adjustment layer is one of Photoshop’s most powerful tools for shaping tone and contrast, and when combined with layer masks it becomes the digital equivalent of darkroom dodging and burning on steroids. Charlie Cramer, a fine-art landscape photographer and one of Ansel Adams’s former students, is perhaps the best-known modern practitioner of this… [Read More]