White balance test

Demosaicing test

Highlight recovery test

Shadow recovery test

Noise reduction test

Sharpening test

Test images download page

 

Sharpening test

One of the most common operations is sharpening the image. Unfortunately it is not real sharpening that can bring us back blurred details, rather an operation that makes differences between pixels more evident. Oversharpening may result in jagged lines and halos around edges.

What we are looking at?

The default view shows the image without any post processing (no denoising, sharpening or other tools applied). White balance was manually set using the grey card. 25% settings corresponds to 25% of the power of sharpening, minimum treshold and other settings left at default values. 100% corresponds to the same settings but 100% power.

The linux software

Bibble Pro 4.10.1

25%	100%

 
Lightzone 3.6

25%	100%

 
Raw Therapee 2.4 beta 2 (EAHD 2 demosaicing)

USM min	USM max	deconvolution min	deconvolution max

 

The non-linux software

Capture One Pro 4.5.1

25%	100%

 
DxO Optics Pro 5.3

25% lens	100% lens	25% usm	100% usm

 
Photoshop Lightroom 2.1

25%	100%

 
Photo Studio Darkroom 1.5

25%	100%

 
SilkyPix Developer Studio 3.0.26

25%	100%