Roger Cavanagh has just reviewed PR Sharpness, part of the Power Retouche set of plug-ins for Photoshop (which incidentally is one of the prizes in the PhotographyBLOG August Competition).

“The first question, I suppose, is “does it work?”. My answer is: yes it does, very nicely. Fix Edges does an excellent job of handling sharpening halos (though it’s not as wonderful as the developer claims). The ability to adjust soft threshold, bright and colour ranges affected provide a lot of control to fine-tune sharpening. The neophyte who’s been used to using the Photoshop filters Sharpen and Sharpen More may, at first, find the array of controls a little daunting, but a careful review of the tutorial and a few hours experimentation with different images will remedy that.”

Website: Roger Cavanagh - PR Sharpness Review