November
8th
Lookin’ Sharp
Sharpening your images is another step from capture to output. Just like exposure, clarity, cropping, and other adjustments, sharpening plays an important role in the creative process. But when should you apply sharpening? How much should you sharpen? What does sharpening do? Let’s take a look at sharpening and how Lightroom handles the process.
Even if you have the best glass and your focusing system is top of the line you cannot avoid the introduction of some softness during the digital imaging process. To start, the sensor converts analog light to digital information when you press the shutter release. That conversion introduces a degree of softness to the RAW file. You won’t see this in a JPEG since the camera will sharpen the image while cooking the JPEG. More softness will get introduced when printing the image. Even though modern ink jet printers have very high resolutions, we are still spraying ink onto some medium. So there are several parts of the process that impact the sharpness of the image.
Tags: Lightroom, sharpening, Tutorial
Posted in Develop, Lightroom, Tutorial | View Comments
