Orange Elephant Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 I've not created any new Alamy images for a while. I seem to remember that we are not supposed to sharpen. Is that correct please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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spacecadet Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 RAW default sharpening is fine, of course. Once or twice a year I may sharpen a marginal one a bit and downsize it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Elephant Posted February 8, 2017 Author Share Posted February 8, 2017 Thanks for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 Marginals I sharpen a bit in LR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 RAW default sharpening is fine, of course. Once or twice a year I may sharpen a marginal one a bit and downsize it I've just put up an old jpeg. It needed a bit of help- probably why it was overlooked during my bad QC patch a while back- so 20 sharpen and downsize to 3250 did the trick. BTW, it's odd working on OOC jpegs after a couple of years on RAWs. They're just not, well, all that sharp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 RAW default sharpening is fine, of course. Once or twice a year I may sharpen a marginal one a bit and downsize it I've just put up an old jpeg. It needed a bit of help- probably why it was overlooked during my bad QC patch a while back- so 20 sharpen and downsize to 3250 did the trick.BTW, it's odd working on OOC jpegs after a couple of years on RAWs. They're just not, well, all that sharp. Amazing the difference, isn't it? You don't get so many artifacts working with Raw, also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Carlsson Posted February 9, 2017 Share Posted February 9, 2017 Input sharpening yes, output sharpening no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Betty LaRue Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 Try this in LR or PS. Develop module or ACR. Sharpening anywhere up to 38. Important! Then use the masking slider holding down, I think the Option key on a Mac, figure it out on PC. When you slide, take the slider to where skies, backgrounds, etc go black, but you can still see the outlines of your main subject. You are in fact masking out the parts you want no sharpening applied, and moderating the amount applied to the subject. I do this on a few images using sharpening at 35-38. But only with masking. The sharpening looks good and subtle. I've never had a failure from oversharpening. Watch out for noise on the subject, though. It doesn't play nice with noise. Once you've done it, inspect at 100%. Betty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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