PhotoKit Sharpener offers a simple but effectivedigital image sharpening workflow for Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 forboth Mac and Windows (both 32-bit and 64-bit in CS5). PhotoKit SHARPENER2.0 supports 8 and 16 bit RGB and Grayscale images.
PhotoKitSharpener upgrade maintains the sharpening workflow concepts of BruceFraser, the original product designer, and was extended by newPixelGenius member and new product manager Mac Holbert. In addition toimproving the sharpening effect routines, PhotoKit SHARPENER 2.0 addsimportant new functionality and new effects.

PhotoKit Sharpener new features highlights:
-The new dialog window in PhotoKit SHARPENER 2.01 now includes a previewbutton that allows seeing a preview of the selected sharpening effect.The preview will only be accurate when the preview window is zoomed into100%.
- The cursor inside of the preview window shows the area of the image that will be zoomed in when you click the mouse.
-New to PhotoKit SHARPENER 2.0 (but previously available in PhotoKitColor 2) is the ability to have effects with multiple layers and layergroups returned as a single pixel layer. This feature can help keep filesizes down although it it does eliminate the flexibility of individuallayer adjustments after an effect has been applied.
- The CreateLayer Mask options allow all PhotoKit SHARPENER 2.01 effects to bebrushed in or out depending on the Hide or Show effect options.
- TheShow Batch Options allow stacking multiple effects to be run one afterthe other. So if you have a common capture, creative and outputsharpening series you use, you can add those effects to a batch list.The batch list can be saved and loaded.