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  • goldjim
    Member

    What is a good standard setting for sharpening in the develop mode?

    Posted On October 31, 2009 - 11:56 PM (3 weeks ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • mrobben
    Member

    goldjim said:

    What is a good standard setting for sharpening in the develop mode?

    My settings are:
    Amount: 30
    Radius: 2
    Threshold: 5

    I think these values are set by my camera, so I just left them for what they were.

    Posted On November 1, 2009 - 10:55 AM (2 weeks ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • goldjim
    Member

    The amount seems pretty low.

    Posted On November 1, 2009 - 04:07 PM (2 weeks ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • Marc Sabatella
    Moderator

    I have my in-camera sharpening turned up just one notch in my camera, and when I bring a RAW image into ACDSee, it starts out at 50/2/5.  I guess maybe the default varies between models?  Anyhow, I'm generally happy with that setting, but I admit I don't tend to play with sharpening much.  On some images, I do turn the amount up as high as 75, and/or adjust radius and threshold to increase the effect.  On other images - particularly ones with a lot of noise - I'll *reduce* sharpening to keep the noise from getting accentuates.  I've got a preset specifically for my mirror lens that tries to find a happy medium.  But mostly I leave it at the defaults.

    Posted On November 2, 2009 - 05:00 PM (2 weeks ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • goldjim
    Member

    What are some good standard detail settings for sharpening a jpeg image? Thanks.

    Posted On November 2, 2009 - 06:01 PM (2 weeks ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • mrobben
    Member

    Normally, your jpeg is already sharpened by your in-camera software.

    So I would say the default might be to not sharpen it at all, and to sharpen on an as-needed basis.
    If you are unhappy with the sharpness of your jpeg's you could turn up the sharpening in your camera or shoot RAw if you have that option.

    Posted On November 5, 2009 - 10:05 AM (2 weeks ago) (Permalink to this post)

  • Marc Sabatella
    Moderator

    I agree.  I'd assume that a JPEG is already being sharpened to an appropriate degree.  Additional sharpening would be needed only on resizing an image, but the amount and type is completely subjective.  Sharpning adds artifacts, and different people have different feelings about the tradeoffs.  So the best advice is, play with the settings yourself to see what balance between additional sharpness (good) and artificats such as halos (bad) appeals works for you.  the only really concrete thing I can suggest is that is important to perform sharpening while viewing an image at the actual size it will be viewed/printed, or else you might get a skewed notion of how much sharpening is needed, and how much you are actually applying.

    Posted On November 7, 2009 - 08:03 PM (2 weeks ago) (Permalink to this post)

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