There has been a long thread about this on the Stockphoto.net list recently. You can find it in the Stockphoto archive.
Until the Stockphoto discussion I too thought I would leave all the RGBs unsharpened. Now this assumption has been overturned by Bruce Frazer and Jeff Schewe advocating three stage sharpening. They sell a software to do this.
Obviously it is of concern with stock images, one doesn't know how an image is being used in advance.
I am currently working on a test of these sharpening systems and amounts and going to A3+ approval and matchprint proofs to see which I will standardise on. One of the options will be not to sharpen in Capture One but to do the minimal sharpening on the TIFFs in LaB.
In my work the "client" is my own self-publishing business hence the need for CMYK conversion too. The client is also stock picture sales.
Yours
Bob
On Saturday, September 20, 2003, at 09:10 am, Richard Lewisohn wrote:
It's interesting that you add sharpening in C1 and subsequently to your full
size files (before giving them to your clients to resize).
I'd always understood that images should be sharpened at the final size at
which they are going to be used. This normally means writing a long letter
explaining how to go about it (normally begging them to invest $49 in
Photokit).
I still worry that telling clients that images are unsharpened might
suggest to them that they are 'out of focus'. I'd rather give clients full
size sharpened images.
What's the consensus on this?
And Bob, what setting would you call 'minimum sharpening' in C1?
Regards
Richard Lewisohn
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