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Re: Lenses and sharpening

Savageduck
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SubjectRe: Lenses and sharpening
FromSavageduck
Date09/15/2014 20:41 (09/15/2014 11:41)
Message-ID<2014091511412569559-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>
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On 2014-09-15 18:26:01 +0000, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>said:

nospam
In article <2014091510560662452-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>, Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com>wrote:

Savageduck
All adjustments made to *Smart Objects*, in Photoshop terms, are non-destructive.

nospam
true, but i was thinking of lightroom where no additional steps are required because everything is non-destructive.

Savageduck
These days with my LR+PS workflow many of my images make a round trip from LR to PS and back to LR have all the layers retained. If I need a JPEG I use the LR export dialog.

nospam
very few of mine need photoshop anymore.

Savageduck
Yup! That is quite a different non-destructive process which quite a few here have yet to grasp even though they own LR.

Since this thread relates to the application of USM and/or other sharpening, I left LR out of the discussion. I am still unsure of what Alfred uses for his post processing.

nospam
lightroom does usm.

…but it isn’t presented to the user as such. It appears in the detail pane labeled “Sharpening” with somewhat different parameters to those found in the PS USM. That those parameters (other that percentage & radius) have different labels to those found in PS USM are probably of little significance, but many users might well not recognize them as the same process in different applications.

with photoshop, the user has to take additional steps to be non-destructive.

Savageduck
Once you have developed a PS non-destructive workflow, it is easy enough to execute.

nospam
it's not hard, but it is additional steps that aren't needed in lightroom which is non-destructive by design.

-- Regards,

Savageduck