Blurry Pictures

I spend a good amount of time in downtown Des Moines. I work downtown and often am in the skywalks over lunch. If you pay attention while you are walking through the skywalks you can see some really cool architecture on the buildings. I took this picture from the skywalks. I wasn’t sure how well it would turn out because the glass looked kind of cruddy. I am not at all surprised that the picture was fuzzy and it proved to be an excellent opportunity to see what the high pass sharpen feature in Paint Shop Pro X does. One of the complications of the features in PSP is that once you select a feature to use you are often given the opportunity to alter the parameters. I generally have no idea what to do with the options I am given. In the high pass sharpen feature you can adjust the strength, radius, and blend mode. For this picture I am comparing the differences in the 3 blend mode options of overlay, hard light, and soft light.

Overlay


Hard light



Soft light



At first glance I thought I liked the hard light picture the best. It is the most clear. However, I think if you look at the square below the lion you can really tell that it is edited. Therefore I guess it would depend on what I am going for. I also think the difference between the soft light and the overlay is minimal. I have to say that the differences between all of the high pass sharpen pictures and the original are amazing.