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Magic Sharpener is amazing image sharpening Photoshop-compatible plug-in for Windows designed by ImageSkill Software that can work as with commercial software like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Corel (Jasc) Paint Shop Pro, Microsoft Digital Image Suite as free like software IrfanView, XnView.
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"I have tried it and found it to be much improved, I like the results. Congratulations on improving on such a great product......Ralph"
"After using many techniques to sharpen my images, I feel you have found a breakthrough....vastly improved sharpness with very few artifacts such as halos, granularity, and noise. A quick, effective program like yours is absolutely one of the most important tools I have seen. Thank you! HG Moore"
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Magic Sharpener allows a user to get dramatically improved the look of images by perceived sharpness increasing without color halos and increased color noise. This plug-in increases the contrast along edges and gets more sharpness and contrast to fine details making them more visible. The latter features can be managed independently doing sharpness enhancement to be content-sensitive in some sense. Since sharpness increasing is very creative process when one is trying to satisfy its own demands that in general contradict each other the separate processing of edges and fine details give everyone unbelievably easy way to realize his own flight of fancy. It is the main feature that differs this plug-in from other.
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This help contains the following sections:
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Recent changes
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- v 1.0 - New release.
- v 1.5 - "Remove JPEG artefacts" feature was added.
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Install and uninstall procedures
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Run setup file. Installer try to find suitable graphic hosts. Choose one of them from the list. If you want to install
plug-in in other folder, select item "Other path" and set path. In this case you must set "Plug-ins path" of your graphic host
to setup folder.
Plug-in’s installer automatically detects the following graphic host applications:
- Adobe Photoshop 7, CS, CS2
- Adobe Photoshop Elements 2, 3, 4, 5
- Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7, 8, 9
- Corel Paint Shop Pro (Photo) X, X1
- Corel Photo Paint 11,12
- Xara Xtreme
- Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006
- Macromedia Fireworks 2004, 8
- Ulead PhotoImpact 8,9,10,11,12
Plug-in can work under the following graphics host properly
- XnView
- IrfanView
- Corel Painter
Plug-in may be compatible with other graphic hosts as well.
In order to uninstall plug-in run uninstall.exe or use
Add and Remove Programs item in the Control Panel or Start Menu.
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Tool, Sliders and Buttons Descriptions
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 Zoom tool
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Use this tool for zooming. Click to zoom in. Right-click to zoom out.
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 Pan tool
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Click and drag to pan images larger than the windows.
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Radius
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Deals with the size of image fuzziness in pixels
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Edge sharpness
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Increases edge steepness
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Line contrast
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Increases the amplitude and steepness of image fine details.
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Prevent noise amplification
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Check this flag to prevent noise increasing in selected noisy image sample.
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Noise level
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Decreases the extent of noise amplification
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Remove JPEG Artefacts
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Removes JPEG artefacts
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Using Magic Sharpener
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This plug-in works under RGB or Grayscale image with 8 or 16 bits/channel with or without transparency.
- Open an image in your graphic editor.
- Run the Magic Sharpener plug-in. (For example, in the Adobe Photoshop use "Filter->Image Skill->Magic Sharpener" menu item).
- Adjust plug-in parameters for desirable result achievement.
- Press OK button and return to host.
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FAQ and Troubleshooting
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I can not find Magic Sharpener in graphic host’s effect menu.
Check is there plug-in in “Plug-Ins” graphic host’s folder, or set path to plug-in using graphic host‘s “Preferences” option. Re-run your graphic application.
I can not run Magic Sharpener or Magic Sharpener is grey out in graphic host’s effect menu.
Graphic hosts disable the plug-in if the current image is not suitable for use with Magic Sharpener. Image must be in RGB or Grayscale format with 8 or 16 bit/channel. If image has CMYK, LAB or something other format, you have to convert it to RGB or Grayscale
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