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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Lightroom Q&A => Topic started by: convergent on March 24, 2007, 01:47:24 pm

Title: LR Sharpening Produces Excessive Noise on Export
Post by: convergent on March 24, 2007, 01:47:24 pm
I just went through a group of basketball championship pictures and need to upload them to a client's yearbook site.  Upon export, the images had a huge amount of noise that wasn't visible at all in Lightroom.  I tried various different export settings to no avail... even leaving the images full size still resulted in a huge amount of noise.  I played around with some settings and determined that the Sharpening setting in Lightroom is causing this.  I had set it to 100%, which shoes minimal sharpening improvement in LR, and no real effect on noise thats noticable.  Upon export, its horrible.  If I change sharpening to 0% the problem seems to entirely go away.  Has anyone else run into this?  By the way, I'm working with JPEGs here, not RAW.
Title: LR Sharpening Produces Excessive Noise on Export
Post by: Schewe on March 25, 2007, 11:32:30 pm
You need to evaluate sharpening (and noise reduction) at a 1:1 zoom in Lightroom.
Title: LR Sharpening Produces Excessive Noise on Export
Post by: convergent on March 26, 2007, 03:56:23 pm
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You need to evaluate sharpening (and noise reduction) at a 1:1 zoom in Lightroom.
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Yes, but if I am looking a relative sized image in LR, and I export to the same size... now I'm looking at two images of the same size.  The exported image has horrible noise, but the LR image looks completely clean.
Title: LR Sharpening Produces Excessive Noise on Export
Post by: Schewe on March 26, 2007, 05:44:27 pm
You need to VIEW at 1:1 in order to determine HOW MUCH sharpening or noise reduction to apply. If you view the images at LESS than 100% (1:1) then running up or down the settings won't show you what you'll get upon export. So, ONLY adjust sharpening and noise reduction at 1:1...