I think I've posted a similar post awhile back but I still seem to be unsatisfied with my sharpening techniques. I realize there are two or three parts to sharpening- Imput to capture the sharpness lossed at capture, creative for selective focus, and then output for sharpness that can be lossed when outputting.
Problem is, lately I've been sharpening in LR only. But I find that I do like how my images look. It could be that I am oversharpening- I dont know. A typical setting in LR would be Amount 70-80, Radius .7-1, Detail 25 and possibly some masking depending. I am just not thrilled with the results. Depending on the image, the sharpening can give it a "blotchiness" (I am not sure how else to describe it) when viewing at 100 percent. Loweing the sharpness, I find it doesn't look as sharp as it could or should be.
So now I am thinking of just exporting my images and sharpening them is PS toward the end of my workflow. I usually would do unsharp mask filter with an amount of 120, radius 1, threshold 3. And change the layer to luminosity. Recently, I read a different technique of creating a copy of the green channel, and creating a mask through a couple of processes, and then applying the unsharpmask. I have to go back and see all the steps of the process.
The point is, I don't think I am happy with the LR shapening. I could either be not using it correctly, or PS could be better. I wanted to know how most others are going about sharpening their photos, and if there are any flaws in any of the workflows I mentioned above.
Another note I wanted to point out, I do use the output sharpening with LR for both print and screen- which I am fine with.
Thanks for any advice or suggestions.