Depth Map Sharpening

Something that just occurred to me is a deep map sharpening.

Let’s say I have two people, one of them in piggyback, I have photographed with an open aperture of 2.0 or 1.4, the camera has targeted the person in front by pulling along, but has pulled too far forward, the person on the back of the other is a bit out of focus.

If I now sharpen with PhotoAI using the standard filter, the person in front may be too sharp.

With a depth map you could reduce the oversharpening of the person in front.

Sounds like the legacy plug-in, Lens Effects.

I don’t want effects, I want the solution to a problem that can occur because the AI system of a camera errors in speed.

I already have the effects, it’s called bokeh and is created by physics.

Just trying to be helpful and offer a suggestion. Sorry it doesn’t help you.

Yes, of course, sorry.

But I want to slowly leave all the old stuff behind me, I want to have solutions and not spend the whole day dealing with individual images.

That already exists in Lightroom Classic (and I’m sure other programs too). It’s called “Lens Blur” and even has its own tab in the Develop module.

You guys are really exhausting.

It’s about sharpening, not blurring.

I want to select the place of sharpness when the autofocus fails, not the place of blur when the image is already blurry.

He is sharp but she is unsharp, i want to solve it with a dept map instead of a mask.

You could “sharpen” your image in Topaz, and then use Lightroom’s tool to move the focus just a tad in in front of the “over-sharpened” front person. Before you poopoo the Adobe tool, have you used it?

I dont use Lightroom.

Of course it would work in a similar way, but a sharpening tool that works differently from all the others would also be interesting.

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