Plain vanilla USM sharpening

I have the impression that no matter what I set, I can not make the Lightroom 1.3 sharpening to act like a simple USM, which I prefer for input sharpening (e.g. 300%/0.3px/0 for my D200). My problem with this is that it, I guess for noise suppression reasons, seems to treat edges differently then fine detail and texture, even if details are set to 100. To my eyes, this leads to either mush-like microdetail (e.g. in distant foliage) or overemphasised edges. In the end, the result has something to it that I can only describe as being unnatural - in an unpleasantly "digital" way.
So the only solution for me is to turn off sharpening in Lightroom completely and perform it in CS3. Sadly, there are 3 problems with this:
1. It makes judging focus difficult
2. It is another manual step in PS that I'd like to avoid and
3. Sometimes it is the only reason why I need to start PS and create a stupidly large PSD file on my harddisk.
My suggestion for an implementation would be:
1. It must be configurable for each camera model used, because the settings depend on the camera's AA filter strength
2. Settings just like in Photoshop USM: Amount/Radius/Threshold (I don't need the latter, but that's just me)
3. Maybe something that resembles how I optimise results in PS: Apply sharpening to a copy of the background layer, turn blend mode to luminosity and set blend if (layer underneath) to mask highlights (to avoid halos) and shadows (dependent on picture's ISO setting).
Kind regards,
Martin

Jeff, I read your article some months ago. Thanks for your effort.
Neil, as you may have read, I have played around with the settings.
Feel free to download my little test:
http://www.datzinger.net/misc/acr_sharpening_test.zip
The picture is useless, but lends itself quite nicely for a RAW conversion detail rendition check. D200 @ ISO 100, 17-55/2.8 @ 17mm/f8.
If I turn detail to 100 (suggested in Jeff's article), I get halos or too little sharpening.
If I turn detail to 50 (halo supression), edges are overemphasised in comparison to texture, digital waxing (for a lack of a better term) occurs.
If I turn masking to 50 (edge masking), digital waxing gets even worse.
If I turn sharpening off in ACR and use plain vanilla USM, I get the results I want.
Turning detail and masking to the (for me) most useless settings of 0 and 100, one can very easily see, what kind of look I do not want in my image details, not even slightly.
Maybe I am a bit allergic towards the waxing and the difference may not show up in prints anyway, but in the end, ACR/Lightroom doesn't behave like I would like it to, hence the feature request. BTW, if some image treatment looks bad on a calibrated LCD at 1:1 but prints well, it belongs to the output stage, IMO.
Kind regards,
Martin

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 <h:commandButton action="#{MainPage.mainAddBtn_action}" disabled="#{SessionBean1.disableEdit}" id="mainAddBtn"
 style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; left: 425px; top: 380px; position: absolute; width: 75px" value="Add"/>
 This is all plain vanilla stuff and I would expect that when the Add button is pushed, the session bean property would be filled with
the value entered in the input text field.
In the java code for the page, I have a method to process the Add button push.
Originally, it just called a method in the session bean to check that a value was entered in the input text field by checking the bound
session bean property.
For some reason, that was not getting filled and I was getting either a null or empty string rather than the value in the text field.
I added some checking in the method that processes the Add button push so I could check the values in the debugger.
Here is a sample of that code:
 public String mainAddBtn_action() {
 String s = sb1.getCompanyName();
 s = (String)this.companyNameTF.getValue();
 s = (String)this.companyNameTF.getSubmittedValue();I check this in the debugger and NONE of the variants that I have listed have the value that was entered into the text field.
The submittedValue is null and the others are empty strings (that is what they were initalized to).
This is all pertty straight forward stuff and I am at a loss to explain what is happening.
Can anyone expain this behavior, and, most important, how can I force the values to be present when the Add button is pushed.
I have never experienced this problem before, and have no clue what is causing it.
Thanks.

Basically, the component bindings are just being used in plain vanilla get/set modes.
I set them to "" when I do a clear for the fields and they are set to a value via the text field.
No other action other than to read the values via get to insert them into the database.
And, I always use the get/set methods rather than just setting the value directly.
This is what is so strange about this behavior - I have created dozens of database add/update/delete pages using this same model and have not had a problem with them - even in a tab context.
Not a clue why this one is different.
I did notice that I had an error on the page (in IE7, you get a small triangle warning sign when something is not right).
I figured that might be the problem - maybe buggering up the rendering process.
I tracked that down and do not get that anymore (it had to do with the PDF display I was trying to get working a while back), but that did not resolve the problem.
I don't think there are any tab conflicts - none of the components are shared between tabs, but I will see what happens when I move a couple of the components out of the tab context.
I noticed that it seems to skip a cycle. Here is what I can do.
1) Fill in text fields and add a record - works fine the first time.
2) Clear the text fields
3) Enter new data in the text fields and push Add
4) I get an error saying fields are blank from my data check process.
5) Enter new data and push Add - the record is added with the new data.
My work around is to not enter data in step 3 and just accept the error message in step 4, then go ahead and enter the real data in step 5.
Very ugly, but it works every time.

MIDP 1.0: Image to byte[] or serializing...

I would like to extract pixels from a MIDP 1.0 "Image" object through any means possible. I am currently under the impression that "Image.toString()" would just do something lame, like giving me a string like "Image@1234" that identifies the class and the instance -- which could in principle be used for mere instance comparison. Anyhow, if I could serialize an Image object to a file, and then read back the file in to a byte array, then I would be delighted. I want to stress that I don't care how convoluted the approach may be, as long as it is in plain-vanilla J2ME Java code for MIDP 1.0 and is capable of working on an actual device (as opposed to an emulator). Can I cast the Image to Object, and then somehow convert to byte[]? I don't care if I have to get down and dirty, hacking the platform-specific bytes of the full Object manifestation of the Image. Anyhow, I want to make it clear that any hard core hack, doing all kinds of things that would break on different VMs, etc, is totally fine. Messy is fine. I just want access to the binary data of the entire Image object, or, even better (but only icing on the proverbial cake), access to pixel data. If I can get the byte[] representation of Image, then I can hack the rest myself.

My goal was do a capture of the way things actually rendered on a device, kind of like a "screen capture", only a little more indirect (since I don't think there is a way to get access to the pixels of the LCD). What I have to do is render to an off-screen Image object and then retrieve pixel data from it using the platform-dependent getPixels() supplied by Motorola. You're going to think I'm crazy, but I send this image data to a web server via POSTs, which get collected and stored as a single file on my web server. Voila! A screen capture of how things actually render to an Image object on an actual device.
Everything works, except...
I can't get the Motorola "getPixels()" method to work in their emulator, so I'm worried
that it won't work on my Motorola T720 (something I haven't actually tried, though).
I get a "Uncaught Exception: java/lang/Error" message from the T720 emulator
when I run one of the Motorola demos (built using their scripts) when I add the
following code to the Canvas paint() method:
if (0 == iDidThis) { iDidThis = 1;
try
{ javax.microedition.lcdui.Image temp = Image.createImage( 120, 160 );
int [] rgbData = new int [120*160];
com.motorola.game.ImageUtil.getPixels ( temp, 0, 0, 1, 1, rgbData );
System.out.println("Captured Data");
catch( java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException e )
{ e.printStackTrace(); } }
This code runs only once, when the paint() method of the Canvas object is called for
the first time. Okay, I get the error message, but the "Bounce" demo (to which I added
the code block above) goes on to run just fine. (NOTE: The message "Captured Data"
is NOT printed in this scenario.)
I don't understand why the public static "com.motorola.game.ImageUtil.getPixels()"
method causes the "java/lang/Error" exception. (By the way, if I comment out the
call to this method, the code totally works without error, and I see the printed
statement "Captured Data" in the command window associated with the emulator.)
If my getPixels() call resulted in bad array access, then I would get the
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException exception. But apparently this is
not what is going on.
I am really rusty with J2ME, so I don't even know the meaning of "java/lang/Error".
I assume it is different from a "class not found" exception, but I suspect that my
problem has to do with a fault in the emulator trying to execute the code for the
"com.motorola.game.ImageUtil.getPixels()" method.
My Motorola emulator (v7.5) is from around December, 2002, so it may be really old, and
maybe this was a known issue at that time that has since been resolved. I'm just never
tried to use platform-specific J2ME APIs before, so I don't know if what I am observing
is my fault, or is an emulator issue.
I'd be grateful for any ideas about what might be going wrong and for ideas about
possible solutions.

I can no longer encode a sequence in PP CC after the Dec 2013 update

II have had to shut down and restart PP CC about 5 times when just creating a very simple sequence of clips from a family get together for Thanskgiving. I had to shut down since everything just quite responding. Fortunately, when I reopened the project, I could resume. I finally got my sequence created, but, now I can't export the sequence. The encode has failed 8 times in a row. I've tried direct export, and exporting to the AME queue. Sometimes I get the error sound and the absolutely useless error message "Error compiling movie. Unknown Error." Other times it just stops making any progress in the encode with no message at all, but there are zero CPU cycles being consumed by PP or AME. It just plain stops, wiht no eror message. That happened 3 times when used the Media Queue approach, and in the preview window in AME, it just stopped encoding at very different places in the sequence.
It appears as though I can no longer encode a movie. And I'm paying big bucks for this every month? What a sap.
I'm glad I'm not a Pro, whose income and life depends on these tools! But, I have a full time job, and only a very small amount of free time. I do not want to spend my small amount of free time as an Adobe Beta Tester. I've been using Adobe tools for years, which is why I signed up for CC, but...at this point: I can't even encode a simple sequence!
I can't express my disappointment. I wanted to be loading the encoded MP4 onto VIMEO for my friends and family to see by now, but.....I can't even encode a very simple sequence. And, I not a newbie. I have hundreds of videos on VIMEO, and many more on Youtube and Smugmug. Every one was produced with Adobe PP (from v4 on).
But now: I'm dead in the water.
I gurantee you that i will not 're-up' when my CC subscription expires, and, I guess right now, I have to start from scratch with my raw clips and find some other tools to use? I wish all my expensive plug-ins (like MB Suite) would work in whatever the tools I will move to...but...I guess I'll just have to write them off as a loss, just like the next 8 months of paying for my Adobe CC Software that no longer works.
I wish there was a way I could take the Thanksgiving Project and its sequences I've created in PP CC and convert the Project to PP 6.0, since I never had any issues with it PP v6.0.
But, from what I understand, if you make a project in PP CC, you are lost. You can't go backwards.
And, you know what? I'm done. I quit. I won't even try starting over in PP 6.0. I'm going to find some other tools. I know they won;t be as full-featured as Adobe's, but...I'm not a pro. I just need something that works reliably.
Disgusted beyond words.
John
Win 7 Pro
24 GB Ram
NVidia GTX 470
PS: So, does Adobe have any kind of disaster recovery plan when an update like this fails? Can you please send out a "new update" that rolls me back to the prior version on PP CC?

OK. I have successfully encoded this very simple sequence, but, I *can't* get it to encode using my "standard" custom H.264 preset that I have been using for years.
But, I was not able to encode in many plain vanilla codecs either, but, I got a notice that there was a CC update for AE, so I took the time to install those updates, and, as I always do, I re-booted after the update of AE.
But, of course I had re-booted a couple times last night when I couldn't get the sequence to encode. That's somethinf I always try b4 writing to a form.
So, here's the sequecne of events this morning:
1) Try to encode sequecne to uncompressed AVI (Cineform AVI 1920x1080). It SUCCEEDED. But, even though the AVI was large > 3.6 GB the quality was horrible, I did not pay much attention to the quality settings.
2) Try to encode to Quicktime H.264 codec. FAILED.
3) Try to encode to Quicktime Codec=Uncompressed 4:2:2. FAILED
4) CC UPdate notice for AE CC and AE 6.0
5) Perform update
6) Reboot
7) Try to encode to Quicktime Codec=Uncompressed 4:2:2. SUCCEEDED - but ENORMOUS FILE SIZE *very nice quality though* :-)
8) Try to encode to Quicktime Codec=H.264. SUCCEEDED.
9) Try to encode to my 'usual' H.264 Preset FAILED, just hung up during the 2nd of two passes. My preset is a VBR with 2 passes, see bitmap below. In this particular case it got 'hung' at this frame. But, It never 'hangs' in the same place?
So, I don't know why I was able to encode the sequence using the Quicktime Wrapper and botn Uncompressed and H2.264 Codecs after updating AE CC and rebooting, but not before. Surely there is no interaction between AE and AME?
But, the re-boot should not have caused it alone, since I had rebooted several times last night, and I've installed nothing but the new update for AE since last night?
So, I guess I'm OK now. Please excuse my tone last night, I was very frustrtated.
It is interesting that I still can't encode this particluar sequence using my "standard" H.264 preset.
And, BTW Jim: What I mentioned in my previus post was not that I had brought and old PP 6.0 sequecne into CC and encoded it successfully, but that I just re-encoded one of my most complex sequences AGAIN in PP 6.0, just to wanted to make sure nothing was haywire with "good old" PP 6.0.
But, I did just re-encode a sequence from PP CC from before the Dec 13 update using my "standard" H.264 preset, and...yes...it DID encode.
SOOOOO...Jim, you were correct. My inability to encode was not due to the DEC 13 PP CC update, but something very peculiar about this one sequence. But, it is a very simple sequence. The only effects applied is some light color grading using MB Colorista, and Warp Stabilizer to a stabilize a few hand held shots. No other effects. And...the encode that fails using my standard preset, never fails at the same frame.
But...at this point I'm OK. Instead of an encoded file in MP4 I have an ecnoded H.264 rendition in the QuickTime MOV wrapper. At least I've got that sequence done and can move on to the ton of others I need to get to (without having to learn an entirely new tool). :-)
John

HP 7510 AIO printer won't stay connected - Wired workstation, wireless printer

Hi! I spoke (and checked solution button) too soon. The printer still "disappears" from the Wired XP network workstation. The only difference since applying the solution given is that the disconnects are now happening about every 12 hours, vs every couple of hours.
Ink notification is set to "only when I print"
Static IP is set for all machines
HNDU works -- when the printer is visible but will hang the workstation if printer is not visible.
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HP 7510 wireless printer disappears -- 4 station XP wireless network, w/ 1 PC hardwired.
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Printer: HP 7510
Network: multi-station wireless, thru DLink DI-632 (one PC hardwired to router)
Address Config:   Printer is using static IP -- outside of DCHP range (192.168.15.240)
Printer Config: Each computer has static IP set into the control panel app, using IP addressing.
Operating System: XP (Service Pack 3)
Other devices: Ipad, Xoom and Kindle Fire (all working using ePrint)
Network Security Protocol: WEP (we're out in the country)
Network Setup: Main router, along with 2 access ports (hardwired); currently using channels 1, 5 and 11 (again, we're in the country and have little competition for channels)
File Sharing: All machines in network have one open "share" drive, accessable with passwork.
Scenario: Wireless computers appear to stay connected for several days to a week at a time. (We reboot weekly, just as a SOP)
Computer that is wired to the network loses communication with the printer a couple of times a day and needs to be rebooted in order to restore connection.
When this happens, other machines continue to print and scan, with no problems, and the wired machine continues to have its name displayed in the SCANNING panel on the printer -- but the printer won't talk to it.   All network functions, including internet and intranet access to the printer's EWS is still available. I have noticed that if I go into check ink levels, though, that the ink check software behaves differently.
Normally in the ink status app, there is a small "working" icon with 6 dots. When this computer is connected properly, it will start jumping around the circle, showing activitiy, get to 41%, and then display the ink status info. When the printer/computer connection is not working, the "working" icon will go to just a couple of percent then jump to the printer information page, showing make, model, serial number, firmware level etc.
In every instance so far, rebooting (with no other action) brings the printer/computer connection back to life -- until next time. I am trying to find any other pattern for this behavior, just can't identify it yet.
I started out with the plain vanilla installation, but then every computer in the network would consistently drop connections, about every 45 minutes. Using the info on this forum, I've eliminated the drop-outs for those printers, and got to the Static IP solutions (we've done that anyway for years with net-ready machines). This is the last machine that "drops off" It appears that some piece of HP-required software is "dropping out" or getting clobbered, but I cannot see a pattern, even checking and noting the various software used locally on the machine, and the various websites visited. So far, no pattern.
I am hoping that an HP guru with access to the source for the "ink supply" status software can take a look at what is happening and why it will always go to 41% and then display ink status (when connected) and then only go a couple of percent and display the ink status (when it isn't connected).
Thanks, in advance,
jim
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In last paragraph, above, the request for "ink status" is returned with a static display of the printer firmware version, driver version, step level, MAC# etc of the printer, not "ink status" when the printer is disconnected.
Also, when printer is disconnected the HP home networking utility will hang the system -- a hard reboot is required, which restores the printer, until the next time it goes "into the woods". Signal stregth, measured on the printer, is 4 bars (very good).
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http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c03149924&tmp_task=solveCategory&cc=us&dlc=en&la...
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Thanks! That appears to solve the problem. After your suggestion, I remembered that I set the "ink level warning" on this machine ONLY to "Always warn me", as opposed to "tell me only when I am printing". That seemed to be the problem. Only the computer that was set to "always warn on low ink-levels" was disconnecting -- the others worked fine! Now, all are working fine.
Just to be safe, though, I've also turned off the "scan from printer to computer" function on each computer. That was set for each machine, and seemed to work fine. The other machines in the network did not disconnect, and the printer was tracked whether each computer was on or off.   May try to turn it on later; I'll see if the family uses that feature very often!
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I spoke too soon! After about 26 hours, the printer connection on the one "hard-wired" CPU dropped, which is better than before, but still not solid. Same exact symptoms as before. Only piece of the puzzle that was different this time is about 50 pages were scanned, some to this computer. Used the "Scan requested from CPU" process, rather than enabling the "Scan TO Cpu" function in the software app. It did not drop the connection immediately after -- about 1 hour to 1.5 hours afterwards. Suspect this is a coincidence, not a cause of the problem with this machine.
I also scanned (same approach) from one other CPU on the network -- that wifi connection is still rock-solid.
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I think it is fixed now.....the problem seems to reside in the module that will notify you immediately if ink is low (vs notify me only when printing). If, when initially installed, the user selects "immediately", then the printer will randomly disappear. (More on "re-finding it" later.)
Also, it is difficult to change the ink notification setting, because it appears not to be "sticky", but will sometimes, flip. (I've not figured this out yet). As long as the setting for "low ink notification" is on "only when printing", life is good.
If the printer does disappear, go over to the Advanced tab when the printer software/firmware page comes up, instead of the current ink levels. Reset the selection about "tell me about ink notification" to "only when printing", and then toggle the "autoshut off" from "NEVER" to "2 hours" and then, finally, back to "NEVER". Then, lastly, press closed on the panel. Printer should be connected again. To test, go to the Photosmart 7510 app again, and select "Show estimated ink levels". The counter will start at 1%, jump to 41% and then bounce around until it displays the ink level.
FOR HP TECH: Please consider making the "ink level notification" persistent in the registry OR provide a de-install tool that will completely clean all traces of the prior installation of the 7510 driver / app in the registry, so that a new install may have this setting saved correctly.
Hope this helps some of you -- it's an excellent printer once its running!
jim

Problem installing Crystal Reports 2013 on a Windows 2012 R2 server

Sheesh. One of my users needs crystal reports and still uses it weekly. It's time to update off of an old 2003 server so I setup a new Windows 2012 R2 server so that she and others can RDP into it and use the application and reports (it's a payroll thing so they want limited access).
So - totally plain vanilla Windows 2012 R2 install. Then make sure I have all the .net stuff installed in the windows features.
But, whenever I run the setup.exe from the downloaded ZIP file from the sap store I get:
(1) "Assertion failure: A fatal error has occured which has caused the installer to quit. Please gather any %TEMP% and installer logs to present to your support personnel."
(2) Then followed by the message:
Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library -- Runtime Error! Programs: C:\install\CrystalReports\setup.engine\SetupEngine.exe This application has requested the Runtime to terminate in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information.
(3) Then:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: SetupEngine.exe
Application Version: 60.0.0.62
Application Timestamp: 543416b3
Fault Module Name: SetupEngine.exe
Fault Module Version: 60.0.0.62
Fault Module Timestamp: 543416b3
Exception Code: 40000015
Exception Offset: 00131ee9
OS Version: 6.3.9600.2.0.0.272.7
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: ee59
Additional Information 2: ee59ff165b01a7b873dafe8afa2598dc
Additional Information 3: f1a8
Additional Information 4: f1a876ca1cb1cf9f6541ac072dd70f88
I can't find any information on this! I have found a similar message that refers to a 2011 install that was fixed with a SP9? But this machine has no current install. I did buy the full version two days ago online from the sap store.

There is an older C++ library that you need that is not available by default on Win 2012. You can get the install for this here:
Download Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package MFC Security Update from Official Microsoft Do…
Also, be sure you're logged in with Administrator rights, the right-click and "Run as Administrator" when you run setup. You might also have to turn off the Windows Firewall when you run the install (you can turn it back on again after the install is complete.)
-Dell
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Getting parameters from multipart request

I'm using org.apache.tomcat.utils.fileupload to parse uploaded files from a multipart form, but unfortunately I can't seem to get normal parameters from such a form with request.getParameter(). Is there a way to use both together?

You might already have solved your problem, but you may find this MultipartFilter useful too: http://balusc.blogspot.com/2007/11/multipartfilter.html
It automatically detects multipart/form-data requests and sets the plain vanilla form parameters back in the ParameterMap of the HttpServletRequest and sets the files as attributes of the HttpServletRequest. This way there is no need to worry about the form encoding type inside the servlet.

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