Do you sharpen the raw file and/or the exported jpeg. Is there a difference and would it be better to only do an unsharp mask on the jpeg?
Question for Capture one / raw shooters
- Thread starter PatBranch
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i use ACR and not C1, but yes i do any sharpening on jpgs in photoshop, after resizing.
The Raw image is completly unsharpened, so I typicaly crank the sharpening up to 50% before opening it into Photoshop, then after any resize and before I print I run Smart sharpen.
That's what I have been doing, Narlus. I was wondering if my way was good, or if there was a better way. What's Smart sharpen? Is that a cs2 thing?
well the way i understand it, sharpening is a destructive/irreversible process, what i do is do all my editing/tonal & color corrections on the full-size 16bit PSD file, save that, then convert to 8 bit and downside the image, and then sharpen.
that way, i've got the full-res PSD file to go back to and do any tweaks if i want to have anything available for prints or additional jpgs.
not sure if this is the best way, but it works pretty well so far.
that way, i've got the full-res PSD file to go back to and do any tweaks if i want to have anything available for prints or additional jpgs.
not sure if this is the best way, but it works pretty well so far.