On Apr 3, 2009, at 9:59 AM, David J Brooks wrote:
I do very few 11x14's, but i find that using the bicubic smoother in CS2 works well. Now, if i take said file in LR2, and after my adjustments, save it as 300 dpi at 11x14, will i get the same thing, or would i be better off switching over to PS, after adjusting and doing it there. Just curious as i have a large order from one of last years shows, 5 5x7's and 8x10 and an 11x14, that i am going to adjust in LR.
Lightroom does bicubic resampling to size and density on export or printing, and provides output sharpening options in the both the Export dialog as well as in the Print Job panel. Which settings work best for a given image depend on what the native resolution is, the scene type, etc. For most image that are 5 Mpixel or more after cropping, I find I can print directly to 11x14 with the print sharpening set to Standard and Matte paper (I use only matte surface papers) and that the results are indistinguishable from exporting, uprezzed or not, doing finish sharpening in PS and printing from there.
A 5Mpixel image printed to 11x14 inch is approximately 180 ppi output density. You can force LR to upsample to 240, 300 or 360 with virtually no loss in quality.
But it depends so much on the actual scene type, paper you're going to, and post-crop image resolution it's difficult to make generalizations. I've had two occasions with slightly cropped 4Mpixel JPEG original captures where it proved much better to edit in Photoshop, upsample there on the TIFF file that was created, do finish sharpening, and then print subsequently from LR.
Some experimentation is in order... :-) Printing is always fussy. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
