Another demonstration of what #SharpenAI from #TopazLabs can do. You might want to zoom in…

The image on the left was taken in deep woodland at ISO12800.
The image on the right is after a pass through #SharpenAI.

It’s #witchcraft, I tell you

I bought whetstones a few years back to help keep my knives sharp. And several years later I’m still awful at it. After over an hour of sharpening 6 knives on 4 grit levels, only three of them passed the paper slicing test.
Anyone got any proven methods to do this well? Especially on larger knives?

I also remembered I left my leather strop at the workshop, so improvised with an old leather belt tied to a stool. Worked surprisingly well!

#Topaz users:
I'm getting a lot of good out of #DeNoise but so far I'm underwhelmed with #Sharpen. IDK if I'm just feeding it files that it can't handle, or I need to play with it more, or if it isn't really All That.

What's your experience with Sharpen?
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