lightroom: sharpen before applying presets?

wheresdavid

question regarding "lightroom workflow" for sharpening and using presets. I often like to use lightroom presets and was wondering if I Am correct to think that I should first sharpen photos in develop before applying a preset?

thanks

Dave

arodney

wheresdavid wrote:

question regarding "lightroom workflow" for sharpening and using presets. I often like to use lightroom presets and was wondering if I Am correct to think that I should first sharpen photos in develop before applying a preset?

Sharpening (capture sharpening in Develop) are part of the presets. That is, the settings in presets found in the preset pane (left) are all the settings to the right, including sharpening. You can of course modify them as you so desire.

HiSPL

Doesn't really matter. After all you haven't touched the image data until you export the file, then LR applies all the adjustments at once as it builds a pixel rendered image.

Anything done in LR is non destructive, meaning you can do whatever you want, as much as you want, and it won't degrade the integrity of the original image. The only way to mess up an image in LR is to adjust an image, export it, then re-import it and adjust it some more. That will start to degrade your image. Thankfully there's no reason to do that, because if you later decide to change something you've exported you can just go back to the original and export a newer version.


HTH,
-=Tim=-