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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 375715" data-attributes="member: 9240">OK, here's the part of your post I'm confused with (in bold)...I export at 300 resolution, matte/glossy paper, standard sharpen, about 90 I'm not sure why you're sharpening for a particular paper style (I don't even see that in my Export dialogue in LR), and I'm unclear what the 90 is. With that said, the paper style thing is where I believe you may be getting most of this.  In my experience, output sharpening for paper types expects that the image will only be used for printing and that there will be some level of run in the inks, so it will leave a bit of "room" to allow for that so the ink run doesn't reduce sharpness.  The regular Lightroom Export function doesn't do this, so I'm assuming you're using something like Nik Sharpener Pro, in which case you want to sharpen for the screen and not paper (or do separate exports for each).  I don't like using default output sharpening and have sharpening turned off on all my export functions.  I sharpen as the last step in the process, often using LR Unsharp Mask to do final sharpening, and then I bring the exported image into Photoshop (Elements would work as well) and apply some level of sharpening to the resized image.  How much depends on the content of the photo.  Blanket sharpening, which is what looks to be happening on your images, sharpens everything, including any noise that's there. </blockquote>