On Oct 24, 2008, at 3:02 PM, Christine Aguila wrote:
In a book on Lightroom, the author made the claim that Lightroom is
not very good for "professional quality sharpening." The
recommendation is to do rendering in Lightroom, then open image in
PS for final sharpening. This surprised me. I'd be interested in
knowing what list folks think. The book is S. Kelby's Adobe PS
Lightroom Book for Dig. Photogs. Cheers, Christine
I'd take Scott's advice with a grain of salt.
As preamble, digital sharpening should be done with three specific
things in mind:
- input sharpening :
Cleaning up the blur induced by the antialiasing filter.
- creative sharpening :
As needed, adding a bit of perceptual jiz to sections of a photo
for punch as a creative endeavor.
- output sharpening :
Tailoring the rendering to the output display/printer-paper
requirements for best results at the output resolution.
As I wrote on another forum recently:
"I find that with good lenses, good exposure and accurate focusing, I
do extremely little input sharpening on most photos beyond the
defaults. Sometimes I tweak the Lightroom controls a little bit from
the defaults but only rarely ... when I'm trying to compensate for a
problem that arose at capture time.
I tend to do none to very little "creative sharpening", which is where
I'd jump into Photoshop in the rendering process after most of the
rest of the work is done.
Finally, I have the output sharpening set to Standard in Lightroom 2
for most printing jobs.
I think what you can read from the above is "use a good lens, get the
focus and exposure correct, hold the camera still (in the hand or with
a tripod) and there isn't much need for more than the default LR
sharpening". ;-) Other than the output sharpening required for
printing and resizing for web display, of course, but those are fairly
trivial things.
Everything I've posted since LR2 was released has been processed
entirely in Lightroom, with no jump into Photoshop until after export
to apply a border and titling. The key to 'why with LR2?' was
selective area tonal editing."
I've never used much sharpening. Good lenses, good focus and good
exposure count for lots more.
Godfrey
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