Enhance Sharpen Does Not Work!

[Mee]

Enhance sharpen does not work on a text field on Gimp 2.1.
On Gimp 2.8 you could use the enhance/sharpen in a text field or box??
I have tried this on Fedora and Debian.
On Xubuntu, Gimp 2.8 it works.

[rich2005]

(09-04-2021, 05:13 PM)Mee Wrote: Enhance sharpen does not work on a text field on Gimp 2.1.
On Gimp 2.8 you could use the enhance/sharpen in a text field or box??
I have tried this on Fedora and Debian.
On Xubuntu, Gimp 2.8 it works.

This the GEGL Sharpen(unsharp mask) filter ?

It might be a bug, but for small text, which is usually on the faint side, try changing the mode in the drop down Blending Options - Mode from Replace to Normal. Although the sliders seem to make little difference to the result.

   

Edit: One reason is, unsharp mask works when there is a border between colours, (say black on white) which is not true of a text layer.