Digital BW, The Print

Another, more flexible approach, that will work with grayscale:

1. Apply the sharpening to a duplicate layer.

2. Reduce any overall over sharpening by lowering the layer opacity.

3. Add a layer mask, with "reveal all'.

4. Paint black on the layer mask to remove some sharpening in a particular area, with an 
opacity for your Wacom brush set to allow reasonable control. Try 25% as a start.

4a. Or, paint some shade of gray on the layer mask with your mouse.

5. Don't like it? Delete the layer mask and try again. Or delete the duplicate layer and try 
again.

Hope that helps.

Michael

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john dean" 
<deanwork2003@y...> wrote:
>
> Hi Clayton,
> 
> First you sharpen as desired using unsharp mask. I often give the
> Amount 500% - the Radius between .2 - .7 (usually .2 for "normal"
> image)  and the Threshold at 0. Sometimes I use .3 if .2 isn't enough
> and reduce the Amount down to say the 200-300 range judging visually
> at 100% on the area that is the sharpest in the file.
> 
> Then immediately after sharpening (you can not do another step in
> between) go to Edit>Fade>Unsharp Mask, set to about 50%. If you are
> working with an rgb file you can do it in the luminosity channel to
> effect tonality only, if you are working in greyscale you of course do
> not have this option of using a luminoisity channel. In the case of
> greyscale you just fade at the same 50% rate overall.
> 
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