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Step 2: Setting the level of the sharpening filter:
Move both boxes to the extreme left, but leave their position in the height unchanged.
In the zoom window, look at text sharpness. Move the upper box upwards until text is sharp enough.
Step 3: Setting the limit:
Move first the upper box, then the lower box to the left without changing their position in the height, until
raster pattern disappears and text is sharpened.
To see the effect of the filter A
DAPTIVE SHARPNESS, activate the radio button NONE and compare the
results you had achieved with the original image.
To edit a filter already existing, open the filter editor via the button C
HANGE, and click on the tab SPECIAL
FILTER.
Display a preview.
Activate the radio button ADAPTIVE SHARPNESS.
To reduce raster pattern in single-color area, enter a lower value in the bottom field under LEVEL in order to
get a greater smoothing effect.
Enter a larger value in the left L
IMIT field to apply the smoothing filter to areas with higher contrast.
To enhance edge sharpness, enter a bigger value in the upper field under LEVEL in order to get a greater
sharpening effect.
Enter a smaller value in the right L
IMIT field to lower the threshold from which the sharpening filter is active.
Smooth
This filter is intended to reduce image noise and distortions, and affects the whole picture contrast.
Edit the picture with the slider.
0: no smoothing
100: max. smoothing
Default value: 50
Sharp
With S
HARP, you will be able to make fuzzy pictures clear. As outlines are enhanced, pictures become
clearer. This filter increases the contrast between light and dark pixels and enhances the edge sharpness of
text and lines drastically.
0: no sharpening
100: max. sharpening
Default value: 50
Filter Radius [µm]
You may additionally fine-tune the effects of the current selected special filter (including A
DAPTIVE
S
HARPNESS, SMOOTH and SHARP), by altering the filter radius. The FILTER RADIUS slide bar will change
the number of pixels that are affected by the current filter.