I use BLOG Sharpen on ALL of my blog images, and Full Res Sharpen BOLD on all of my print versions. You ROCK Dustin.

The only problem I've found with using the above two actions is when my subject's against a light background. Sometimes the LCE part makes a halo around them, in which case I'll use a more conservative LCE action usually. That's to be expected though, I guess. Thanks again!

It's hard to explain without showing you in person, but it's pretty much not possible to replicate the BLOG sharpen look on full resolution images or prints and what not. Basically, it has to do with the size of the image and the viewing distance. For example, you can go to my blog and look at my images...well they're all similar in size and you generally view them at the same distance every time, so they look is going to be pretty constant. Full Res Sharpen BOLD and Masked Sharpen are the two I like for sharpening full res files and giving them a nice crisp, pop, but I will admit, it's not the same. It's not you or the images, it's the nature of sharpening. Hope that helps!The halo is from the radius, so if you reduce that, it will help some, but at the sacrifice of a little pop. Glad to hear you are enjoying the action set and that is doing what you need for you. Thanks for the input!

Thanks that's helps a lot and brings me at ease again.

Now next question... to me it feels a bit like cheating then... to post images on my blog, that looks better, than what I give the clients.

Does anyone have input on this? Did you ever have clients address this?

I know what you mean, but the only that looks different when I give clients prints, is the sharpening, not any of the other post work. Like I mentioned before, it is because of size and viewing distance...those are two of the things sharpening is based on. If you know a 16x20 is going to be only viewed from 5 feet at the closest, than you can sharpen it more and more specifically, but we're silly humans and for some reason we want to put our noses up to a print and point out flaws. That's the person that even though the 16x20 is behind a couch on the wall, will climb on the couch and get his nose within 3 inches and then make some silly comment. What are you going to do? Make any sense? Sharpening is based on 3 things; content, image size, and viewing distance, so there is a lot that goes into it to get it perfect. I don't go for perfect, I go for pleasing.

Thanks for sharing these. I like what I have seen so far. Gonna do some serious playing tomorrow.