TK FRIDAY (TK8 Web-Sharpen) Deep Dive

[@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly]

Get 15% Off Tony Kuyper's TK8 PLUGIN For PHOTOSHOP and Videos here: goodlight.us/panels-and-videos.html Use Promo Code DK15 On today's TK FRIDAY tutorial I will be taking a Deep Dive into the TK8 Web-Sharpen Panel. I'll also show you how to use the Web-Sharpen Panel to add watermarks to your sharpened images. Web-Sharpen PDF Notes Dropbox LINK: www.dropbox.com/s/t8prrj7714ty01u/TK%20Friday%20%28Web%20Sharpen%29%20Notes%20by%20Tony%20Kuyper%20.pdf?dl=0 Watermark PSD File Dropbox LINK: www.dropbox.com/s/wwx6k4ci8saeo3z/TheJoyOfEditing%20Camera%201.psd?dl=0 Affiliate Links For Software I use and recommend: Topaz Affiliate Links: ATTENTION: TOPAZ PHOTO AI IS ON SALE NOW (CLICK LINK to PURCHASE): topazlabs.com/ref/434/ SAVE $40 until Feb 17,2023 SAVE $59.98 by purchasing the IMAGE QUALITY BUNDLE: www.topazlabs.com/image-quality-bundle/ref/434/ includes SHARPEN AI, GIGAPIXEL AI AND DENOISE AI Purchase TOPAZ PHOTO AI and other TOPAZ LABS Products here: topazlabs.com/ref/434/ SAVE $59.98 by purchasing the IMAGE QUALITY BUNDLE: www.topazlabs.com/image-quality-bundle/ref/434/ Purchase Topaz Studio 2: topazlabs.com/studio/ref/434/ TK8 PLUGIN FOR PHOTOSHOP Links: Get 15% Off Tony Kuyper's TK8 PLUGIN For PHOTOSHOP and Videos here: goodlight.us/panels-and-videos.html Use Promo Code DK15 Download a Free Linear Profile for your Camera here: goodlight.us/linear-profiles.html Tony Kuyper's Blog (Good Light Journal): tonykuyper.wordpress.com TK8 Instruction Manual PDF: goodlight.us/writing/TK8/TK8-Instructions-Manual.pdf ON1 Software Affiliate Link: Get 20% OFF ON1 Software Here: on1.sjv.io/kjbNBM Use PROMO CODE DAVIDKELLY Coupon valid for 20% off a purchase at ON1 Coupon is not applicable to subscriptions and cannot be combined with other discounts or promotions. DXO Affiliate Links: DXO PhotoLab 6 Affiliate Link: tidd.ly/3lSV91M DXO Pure Raw 2: tidd.ly/3wlE5KC NIK COLLECTION 5 Affiliate Link: tidd.ly/2Rr4pRr Nik Collection 5 Users Guide: userguides.dxo.com/nikcollection/en/ DXO Filmpack 6 Affiliate Link: tidd.ly/2UGHsrc DXO ViewPoint Affiliate Link: tidd.ly/3fmMUZZ Skylum Software Affiliate Links: LUMINAR AI Affiliate Link: skylum.evyy.net/c/2066209/880106/3255 Use Promo Code DAVEKELLY to receive a $10 Discount Discount does not apply to sale items... Skylum Luminar Neo: skylum.evyy.net/9WQe6y Use Promo Code DAVEKELLY to receive a $10 Discount Discount does not apply to sale items... Contact Me: edenbridgephotography.com/contact Website: edenbridgephotography.com #TkFriday #TK8WebSharpen #TK8Combo/CxPanel

[@eoslove2022]

EXTRA FEATURES? Yes please!!

[@jvalenta47]

I love TK8 and your TK Fridays! I would never use TK8 to full extend without your tutorials. Thanks Dave!

[@emilebaudot904]

Very helpful reminder Dave.. I would like to see more work on watermarks to incorporate into the web sharpening… thanks again..

[@StephenEhrlichPhotos]

Happiness is TK Friday! Another excellent Tutorial by an excellent Teacher. I appreciate you leaving in a few mistakes (along with the corrections). It helps to see common mistakes and their fixes. Thanks Dave!!!

[@ShaileshSharmasolan]

I've been using this web sharpening on all my images for social media for a long time, and it does an excellent job, but I didn't know it could do so much.... Thanks Dave 😊🙏

[@tonynicolaci3244]

Fantastic Video for time saving when outputting to Social Media. I will setup a FB and Instagram settings now with logo watermark. Yes I would also love to see extra features. Always learning from this channel and my favourite of all my subscriptions.

[@martinsanders5097]

Great video. Great teaching style. Thanks Dave

[@micheldominique9583]

Hello Dave, thank you for this very informative video, this is an option that I did not use but after this tutorial, I will certainly use it, spend a good weekend.👍

[@frankwynn3530]

Great tutorial as always. I would be interested in learning how to make a watermark in a future tutorial. Thank Dave!

[@richardbrewer329]

Thanks, Dave! very thorough as always. I would love to learn how to create a watermark as well!!

[@johnwyburn2288]

Fantastic Tutorial, I have always wondered how to make use of this TK8 feature...please show me more (how to not sharpen the sky) Thank you !

[@jimjames4252]

Very informative Dave - Thank You.

[@steve2085]

Thanks Dave

[@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly]

Thanks again for the Super Thanks Steve.

[@BudPerrott]

Great job, Dave! This is a feature that I have not used so far, but will do so in the future. An additional feature for Tony to consider is the size of the file as many people request a file size in megabytes. If you’re using the auto save feature, it would be nice to know file size ahead of time.

[@curtislewis3555]

I would like to be able to have multiple watermarks to choose from in the panel. Hopefully that will happen in the next upgrade. Thanks again Dave.

[@TomStrazulla]

Thanks so much for the deep dive it answered so many questions that kept me from using the module. More on web sharpen would be appreciated. As I use Lightroom Classic it would be helpful if there is some way to round trip the saved file to the original folder or to a subfolder in the original folder. Perhaps applying an action in the web sharpen folder but I am not sure an action round tripping the file can be configured. Thanks again.

[@allumpfa]

Hi Dave, A good refresher thanks. I tend to use the auto save and auto close once I am happy with the outcome and don't use the save for web as this seems an extra step I dont need unless I am missing something?

[@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly]

I agree Peter. Once you get the sharpening set the way you like it then Auto Save and Auto Close is the way to go with just a CTRL or command click.

[@petervandenbroek273]

Very informative as always. Can you please elaborate the correlation between this video and the one you did on Browser Proofing with web Sharpening?!

[@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly]

The Browser video was more about how to view your editing results in the browser to see how the edit is coming along. This video is about the Web-Sharpen Panel in detail.

[@petervandenbroek273]

@@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly Thank you!

[@richardkozak475]

Great and useful video. One question. I often process flowers to have a soft look. Do you recommend not sharpening those?

[@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly]

Thanks Richard. I would only sharpen the areas that are sharp and leave the rest untouched.

[@rogergray7482]

I have been avidly watching through your library of tutorials for tk8. Thanks so much for such a valuable resource, really gaining condidence now in thinking about how edits might work, in fact confidence that i can make something i like out of a raw image. One small question that came out of this tutorial was how you create the white frame action that you use. I have tried to source how to do this for a while hence it pricked my interst when I spotted you used it. Do you explain this in any other tutorials, or have the action available?

[@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly]

Roger that is great news. Tony made that white frame action. I'll try to remember to ask Tony about that and how he made it.

[@rogergray7482]

@@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly Thanks Dave - would really appreciate that.

[@rickgonzalez6345]

Great video Dave, I would like to learn how to create my own watermark, also if you sharpen your image prior by using The Topaz suite do you still need web sharpening, looks like this reduces the size of the image so it has to apply more sharpening ? Thanks Rick

[@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly]

I would Rick. You will be downsizing the images and web sharpening will help.

[@steve2085]

Great lesson, Dave. Would you use web sharpen on photos that you email to friends?

[@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly]

I would. Generally they will be smaller and they will be viewing them on a computer or tablet device and web sharpening will give them a nice sharp image. The only time I wouldn't would be if you would be allowing them to make prints.

[@keithsimpson8676]

Very useful video,Dave, as usual. Yes to the extra features. I don’t really understand the difference between using the fit button and the horizontal or vertical button. They seem the do the same thing? Any chance you could explain the difference in the extras video please. If the fit button works on horizontal and vertical photos, does the panel need the horizontal and vertical buttons? Maybe Tony K could comment?

[@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly]

If the image is a Vertical crop it will honor the Vertical pixel dimensions when you use fit. If the image is a horizontal crop it will honor the Horizontal pixel dimensions when you use fit. The image will always keep the same aspect ratio.

[@keithsimpson8676]

@@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly I understand that Dave, so why do we need a vertical and horizontal button. Fit seem to do the job for both.

[@TonyKuyper]

"Vert" button always honors the value in the "Height" field as the final height of the sharpened image. "Horz" button always honors the value in the "Width" field as the final width of the sharpened image. "Fit" button always fits the resized image within the box created by the "Height" and "Width" values. In all three cases the aspect ratio of the image remains unchanged. One way to experiment with this is with an image with a 4:3 aspect ratio and have the "Height" and "Width" fields set to a 3:2 ratio. Once you play with this combination, you'll see that these three buttons are indeed different. An even simpler example is to work with a square image (1:1 aspect ratio) and again have the "Height" and "Width" fields set to a 3:2 ratio. You really have to play with some actual images to see what's going on. Suffice it to say that vertical images do not always get resized to the value in the "Height" field with the "Fit" button. There are situations where the "Width" field will be the controlling value for vertical images when using the "Fit" option. Overall, once I know the size of the box I want the sharpened image to fit in (for me it's 800-px high by 1100-px wide), then "Fit" is my logical choice as it works for all images sharpened for my particular purpose (viewing on my monitor). But there are situations where I want all images, landscape or portrait, to be a given height after sharpening, in which case I'll use "Vert" to do the resizing. It's the "Horz" button that I don't actually use all that much.

[@keithsimpson8676]

@@TonyKuyper thanks very much tony for such a full explanation. As you say I need to experiment.

[@jeffstasney82]

Thanks, Dave, this is great information. I've been using the panel for a while, but often my images are not exact standard ratios (2x3, 4x5 etc) . Is there a way I can create a preset without inputting both width and height? I can do that on the panel when I don't save it as a preset, but as soon as I try to create a preset it requires both. If so, why?

[@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly]

Web Sharpen will always keep the aspect ratio of image. The amounts you enter for width and height allow the image output to honor whatever size you want. If you chose width it will honor that pixel dimension or if you chose height it will honor that dimension. If you chose fit it will honor the widest pixel dimension depending if it is a horizontal or vertical crop.

[@jeffstasney82]

@@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly Thanks!

[@malencid]

Is this useful for making a slide show in lightroom using web sharpening to improve the look on a screen?

[@thejoyofeditingwithdavekelly]

That would depend on how large the files are. If you are keeping the files the original size I wouldn't but if you will be reducing the size it would help.

[@trwhitford65]

Extra Features, Please !!

[@carlosestanguiortega6485]

Thanks