![]() ![]() One of the biggest challenges in sharpening is seeing the effect of sharpening on your images. The Option (Mac) or Alt (PC) key on your keyboard can do a lot of the magic in Lightroom. I had to write about this in a separate header so that you don’t miss it. Let’s now play with a real image to see how we can sharpen it in Lightroom. See the examples below.Ĭombining the above controls, you could effectively sharpen your images without much work and dramatically cut your workflow time. The softer and less defined the background, the better the results. While it is not very useful for images that have too much detail and too many edges all over the image, it works magic for images that isolate subjects from the background. This is the tool that would take care of the extra noise produced by “Amount” and “Detail” sliders around your subjects. Masking – the most useful and versatile feature that masks out areas that should not be sharpened, similar to the mask tool in Photoshop.I try to stay below 50 on the detail slider because higher numbers often considerably increase the amount of noise. ![]() For example, if you are working on an image of a bird, if you leave the detail at “0”, only the edges of thick feathers would get sharpened, while using a larger number above 50 would bring out and sharpen even the thinner feathers. A small value like 0 only sharpens large edges, while a high value like 100 would sharpen even the smallest edges. Detail – as the name suggests, the detail slider controls the amount of sharpening on the edges or “details” of the image.I use the default radius value of 1.0 most of the time and I recommend keeping it under 1.5. If you increase the radius to a maximum value of 3.0, sharpening will be spread over three pixels around the edge, resulting in thicker, “shadowy” edges. The default value of 1.0 means that Lightroom will apply sharpening over 1 pixel around the edge. Radius – the size of the sharpening area around the edges.I typically set 50 as the default value for my images, but sometimes can increase or decrease the amount depending on the image and noise levels. Too much sharpening will also increase the noise. The higher the number, the more sharpening you will see. Zero means no sharpening is applied to the image. Amount – the amount of sharpening you want to apply to an image.The Sharpening Tool has four different sliders: ![]()
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