Olaf, This is the pronounced stairstepping I'm referring to: <http://www.flickr.com/photos/26078880@N02/2869259694/sizes/o/> Now that I've been working my way through CS2 and ACR 3.7's sharpening and demosaicing algorithm for the past couple of weeks, I now see what the advantage of this haloless stairstepped texture is useful for...UPREZZING!...as noted in the image on the right. I also

Ilya Razmanov wrote: On Sat, 31 May 2008 03:11:01 +0400, m.fuerst <m.fuerst@insightbb.com> wrote: I guess both. I first posted my question because I saw an article about using high pass filters to make complex selections. If you need simple highpass filter close to that one of Photoshop, you may try this plugin made by me: http://photoshop.msk.ru/as/highpass

Spandex Rutabaga wrote: Arm Bar wrote: By soft, do you mean not sharp enough. I agree with that. It was much less sharp before I applied sharpening. But I quit at the point where halos were forming. Perhaps it's time for haloless sharpening :) Two problems. It's a small crop from a large image, taken with a lens that isn't the sharpest to begin with.