Calculate Sharpen/Blur

[glorybound]

Anybody using Calculate Sharpen/Blur? Any recommended settings?

[glorybound]

Nobody? I was using Topaz's sharpen AI, but it is way too much of an effect, so I want to try something else.

[vladimir_krastev]

Hi Bobby, the sharpen/blur is a "make it more beautiful" tool more or less. And as they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder so it is a matter of taste. Here is the docs page about sharpen/blur - https://docs.chaos.com/display/VMAX/...ng-SharpenBlur

[seandunderdale]

I only use it when I rendering something onto a photo backplate, and I need to match the blur / sharpness in VFB to be able to unify the cg and backplate. I only tend to use it as a previs tool in the VFB, and turn it off for final rendering....but as Vladimir says, there's no one setting I'd use between projects, it always changes depending on the shot.

[glorybound]

Yes, my research is, it is only for previz and not final production.