Excuse me if this has been asked before. From what I understand most sharpening is done in photoshop, but often that is the only reason to use PS after doing editing in LR, so I'm wondering if any of you do your sharpening in LR.

If so, how, and are there any presets for this?

Thank you!

Sharpening in LR is great if you look at the presets that come with the program (at the bottom) you will see included sharpening pre-sets. The protrait is great to batch a bunch of shots. If making master image in PS I use Kubotas magic sharpen. If you want to get fancy you can after export batch shapen the entire folder using a PS action.

Thank you! Do you mind if I ask more specifically if the LR presets work well for both web and print? or only one or the other? Do you apply it to all photos?

And I was looking at Kubotas and didn't see that he had any for LR. I'm trying to avoid having to use photoshop when all the other editing is done in LR. Does that make sense?

I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible, yet get good results!

I generally apply the portrait sharpen feature to all photos for web vieing with a punch of clarity (play with that slider) . If I do my own printing I generally have taken the image into PS. A simple right click on the image and open into PS, when you are done it is saved as a copy right in LR. Scott Kelby (Most famous PS instructor on the planet) says to over sharpen your image (PS or LR) before printing. Sharpen just enough to where you think it is too much and then print, it comes out great.

Thanks Stephen, very helpful!

Renee, also check out Matt Kloskowski's Lightroom Killer Tips blog. He puts out a new (free) preset every Monday (roughly) and some of them are pretty useful.

He gave us about half a dozen sharpening options in this post, from light sharpening to heavy duty (one set for portraits, one for landscapes). I think it is handier than messing with all four sliders every time, myself...then I can tweak as needed.

Another thing that will help you in sharpening in LR is the masking function. See a quick vid about it here:

http://www.haskinsphotography.com/blog/lig...sharpening.html

That's a great tip. I'm going to experiment with it today. Does it work to save it as a preset, though? (since you are just wanting to sharpen the focus on the eyes?)



Littler Chicken! I'm looking into the link you posted. How generous of him to offer those presets. This may be a simple thing, but where I would I save the presets to when I download them? Lightroom, or a file on my computer...? Somewhere else? Sorry, I'm very new to that type of thing (saving presets, or loading action, etc.).

For LR on Windows - if you did the default installation, copy the preset files to:

\\Documents and Settings\your_user_name\Application Data\Adobe\Lightroom\Develop Presets

Frank

Thanks, this is a great tip!!

What Frank said or, if you don't want to navigate through or if they are in a different place, go to the Develop Module in LR, right click on a preset, and select "Show in Explorer". If you get a lot of presets, you can make preset folders to help you sort them here. You have to quit LR and restart it for the newly loaded presets to show up.

Nick,

That is a great tip! One of the probably many things I don't realize about lightroom.

Thanks,
Vanessa

OMG thanks for the link!!!! I'm so excited! I just got light room yesterday, and LOVE LOVE LOVE IT> I'm so pround I have never done anything like this before and I got a ton of presets loaded up with no help from my Geek Hubby! (savannah's pats self on the back!!)

Thanks Agian

This is an amazing site. It is so nice to have these presets to play with. Does anyone deal with the clone/heal part of LR or do you just do all face touchups in PS still? I haven't figured out how to diminish under eye issues in LR... I always find myself going back to PS

I haven't done any sharpening in Lightroom. I usually sharpen in PS so do you recommend sharpening in Lightroom? And, do you find your images are a little grainy after you sharpen in LR?