| Re: Canon DPP software
Like the others, I use DPP for RAW conversion but edit with better software and use Unsharp Mask at the end. USM gives so many variables that you can find the best settings for any photo. And there are other much more complicated techniques available to the dedicated photo editor.
But, some professionals recommend a little sharpen before editing and ending up with USM. Also, quite a lot depends on your camera settings. When I first acquired my 40D I shot with Standard quality until, feeling disappointed, I read the manual. Now I always use Faithful which doesn't add or 'improve' anything.
While I don't know what form of sharpening is used by DPP, I would assume that it just sharpens all pixels equally which would create poor results at higher settings. I haven't tried it but would assume that sharpening twice at 2 would produce better results than sharpening once at setting 4. |