On Apr 27, 2005, at 11:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It sounds like you have a good grasp of the RAW conversion process. My main suggestion would be to use the Sharpness slider carefully. A setting between 75 and 100 is a lot of sharpening. Blow your image up to 100% or 200% when sharpening to see what it does to the edges and transition areas. I find that I usually can't go above 65 without causing damage and frequently end up in the 50s. You're also applying even more sharpening after conversion. Without a doubt, you're oversharpening.
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I find it best to generally leave all sharpening to editing after RAW conversion. Since you often need sharpening in the ACR RAW process to see in detail what small changes to contrast and exposure might do to the image, you can set Camera Raw's preferences to only apply sharpening in preview, leaving the RAW-converted image unsharpened and ready for editing post-RAW editing.
Godfrey
