A queue of measurements, not a copied slider
A fixed sharpening amount across unrelated files is usually wrong. This route samples a detailed region in each frame, measures its edge acutance and noise separately, then chooses radius, amount and threshold from that file’s own reading. If the edge profile already contains a sharpening rim, the opening pass is reduced before any full-size work begins.
What the automatic queue deliberately leaves out
- Motion deconvolution needs a direction and blur length judged on a real edge, so the batch route never guesses them.
- Output sharpening for a named paper or final resize belongs after the destination size is known; this queue performs creative sharpening only.
- The automatic result is conservative. A photograph that needs subjective clarity or structure work belongs in the single-picture instrument.
- Metadata is not carried into the ZIP outputs; the original files remain untouched beside the downloaded archive.
- Everything here is 8 bits per channel, on every route: a 16-bit file in the queue is reduced on the way in, and a smooth gradient that was going to band will band.
- A TIFF the browser will not open itself goes through this site's own decoder, in the queue as in the single-picture console.
