Thanks, Godfrey. This is good to hear, and your sharpening points are very
helpful and insightful. Much appreciated. So far I have to say I've been
happy with Lightroom's sharpening as well as the software program
itself--it's so much fun to use because it's so easy to use. Go Lightroom!
Thanks again, Godfrey. Cheers, Christine
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From: "Godfrey DiGiorgi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: PS CS4 (sharpening)
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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