Wow, great textures! I especially appreciate the tutorial. Please put a copy in the Tutorials thread. I have to thank you for while I can do the detail work your method and explanation is much faster as I usually spend several hours on mine. Thanks very much for sharing.

Do you mind if I suggest some things I have learned on sharpening based on your images?



#1 is your image with 'sharpening'

#2 is your original image with 'highpass sharpening'

#3 is your image and I added a layer that I used 'local equalization' plugin on, and set the blend mode to Muliply at 10% opacity.

What I have found is while sharpening can look very good for an image viewed at normal size, in WED if you apply the texture at 1.0 or even .5 it shows a lot of pixelation. Here are the same textures zoomed in to 200% which would approx what they would look like in WED at .5 (assuming I did the math right).



So you can see that if you need to sharpen or increase the detail method #2 or #3 gives better results -unless you set the texture in WED to something like .25.

Thanks again.