Pages: 1 [2]   Go Down

Author Topic: LR 4 export output sharpening  (Read 16505 times)

digitaldog

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 20630
  • Andrew Rodney
    • http://www.digitaldog.net/
Re: LR 4 export output sharpening
« Reply #20 on: May 14, 2012, 04:09:43 pm »

In the case of Smugmug or Zenfolio, I have no choice.  The images air going to be resized.

You can’t just send them the images sized for what you want (multiple times)?
Logged
http://www.digitaldog.net/
Author "Color Management for Photographers".

Schewe

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 6229
    • http:www.schewephoto.com
Re: LR 4 export output sharpening
« Reply #21 on: May 14, 2012, 06:16:33 pm »

Whether you agree with the way I want to do it or not, please answer my question about how the sharpening works. 

What outstanding question have I not answered? As to exactly how the sharpening works, I'm not at liberty to disclose anything other than how to use it.
Logged

Bart_van_der_Wolf

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 8913
Re: LR 4 export output sharpening
« Reply #22 on: May 14, 2012, 08:04:08 pm »

[...]For printing, I get better results in Qimage...whether you agree or not. 

But I do need to do print sharpening some place and it is easiest to do on export from LR.

Hi John,

Although Jeff did answer your question about display ('screen') sharpening, indeed display pixels are display pixels (although a matte display might need a bit more sharpening, I'm also not sure on which basis the built-in solutions were founded), I also do agree that for high quality output there is more than LR alone.

Quote
Whether you agree with the way I want to do it or not, please answer my question about how the sharpening works.  I agree to understand your warning and be fully responsible for the mistakes you tell me I am going to make.

Since display pixels are relatively low resolution, one cannot sharpen display pixels too much without introducing visible artifacts, such as halo. So in that sense, it's what-you-see-is-what-you'll-get, which is more or less what Jeff said.

However, there is indeed more to that story ..., there are different ways to tweak those pixels into suggesting higher resolution, without artifacts showing too obviously. Look at the attached examples which are pretty well downsampled with ImageMagick without, and with 100, 200, and 300% deconvolution sharpening, added.

Given your reference to Qimage, it may also be useful to look at some prior threads (here and here) on the general subject.

Cheers,
Bart
Logged
== If you do what you did, you'll get what you got. ==
Pages: 1 [2]   Go Up