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Project 365 & Daily Photos
Jake's Backdoor Hippie-palooza, 2014 Edition
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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 348005" data-attributes="member: 9240"><p>Please note, this is <em>my</em> sharpening method and it's developed within my workflow over the course of the last year and a half since the "sharpening lightbulb" went off over my head. Had I tried doing this from day one I would have likely had some awful photos. </p><p></p><p>My recommendation to people just starting out with this would be to learn to pre-sharpen properly. ACR/Lightroom defaults sharpening of RAW files to 25, and most people are happy to just let that sit as is like it's a magic number. I recommend one of two things, either set it to 0 and update your default while learning to sharpen using other tools in Photoshop, or learn how to set it properly using the Masking slider, knowing that you need to balance it carefully with noise adjustment since sharpening will sharpen noise as well (which is why I set it to 0, go to Photoshop, reduce noise, and <em>then</em> pre-sharpen).</p><p></p><p>As for the Nik tools, they have 2 sharpening tools in there, and I don't use either of them. Not because they're not good (I don't know), I've just learned other methods.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 348005, member: 9240"] Please note, this is [I]my[/I] sharpening method and it's developed within my workflow over the course of the last year and a half since the "sharpening lightbulb" went off over my head. Had I tried doing this from day one I would have likely had some awful photos. My recommendation to people just starting out with this would be to learn to pre-sharpen properly. ACR/Lightroom defaults sharpening of RAW files to 25, and most people are happy to just let that sit as is like it's a magic number. I recommend one of two things, either set it to 0 and update your default while learning to sharpen using other tools in Photoshop, or learn how to set it properly using the Masking slider, knowing that you need to balance it carefully with noise adjustment since sharpening will sharpen noise as well (which is why I set it to 0, go to Photoshop, reduce noise, and [I]then[/I] pre-sharpen). As for the Nik tools, they have 2 sharpening tools in there, and I don't use either of them. Not because they're not good (I don't know), I've just learned other methods. [/QUOTE]
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