Should I use a one, two or three-pass sharpening workflow with FocalBlade?
Whether you choose to sharpen your image once, twice or even three times is mainly a question of taste and your personal requirements. In many cases sharpening your images only once will do just fine and save you time. Multi-pass sharpening is not a must, it is an option. You have to decide yourself if multiple sharpening benefits your workflow and the end result. Sharpening more than once can make sense under the following conditions: 1. You are working with a RAW file and want to pre-sharpen it to get a better feel for the final result. 2. You need to sharpen the same image for different output devices, e.g. web and print or different printer types. 3. You want to dramatically resize your image and minimize the softening effects of the process by sharpening the image before and after resizing. 4. You want to apply different sharpness effects to different image areas. Some people may claim that sharpening an image more than once increases its print quality, but that is a myth. In fact