#Gimp 2.8.22 plugins pro#
#Gimp 2.8.22 plugins professional#

So now, if I reduce the Amount, the results do not seem to get applied evenly: even if I tone down the effect to be barely noticeable in most of the image, the darkness of small pockets persists disproportionally: crevices and small shadowy areas remain to stand out painfully dark and ugly from the rest of the image. This should however be be the responsibility of the Amount slider. In the new, unified filter, increasing the Radius increases not only the distribution of the effect - the area that is impacted - but also the intensity: darks get even darker. My unsharp mask trick for large areas now delivers unacceptable results, because it deposits so much dark into smaller-scale, midtone-but-in-a-brighter-context areas. Sharpening seems to have lost some of its edge: like it now prioritizes publishing-industry oriented quality over achieving extreme visual revealing power. The 'unified' Sharpen (Unsharp Mask) filter in v2.10 I often used this trick also for images of landscapes. I used Gimp 2.8's unsharp mask filter to get somewhat comparable results by setting its Radius to around 100px and even above (combined with only a mild value for Amount).

This clarify effect differentiated separate areas in a picture, often, for example, subject versus background, or overlapping objects, and made them stand apart more (so the eye perceived the spatial 'depth' much easier, in effect, in an instant).

#Gimp 2.8.22 plugins pro#

The way I used this filter was a bit comparable to how the Clarify effect/filter worked in some earlier version of PaintShop Pro that I had the opportunity to try out.

What I needed it for was sharpening (often low resolution and quality) images of various machinery and technical products, in order to observe and understand how these complex structures worked.įor this purpose it did not matter if the result looked a bit rough.

#Gimp 2.8.22 plugins professional#

I found that sharpen worked well only for relative smallish images, like below ~ 2000px longer side, or so, and when cranked up to a high value, it provided results some may consider quite rough, not fit for professional publishing.īut I'm not a professional publisher. However the new unified filter is not without disappointments. I can imagine that from an 'engineering point of view' the move seemed to make sense, because they worked using a similar concept. Gimp 2.10 has unified the sharpen and unsharp mask filters that were two separate filters in earlier versions (both located in the Filters > Enhance submenu).