novice9 Posted January 23, 2010 Share #1 Posted January 23, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) Do the effects of sharpening on an image as rendered when viewing at less than 100% mean anything at all? I ask because when I sharpen in either C1 or LR, the programs do show the effects of sharpening when viewing the entire image (ie, less than 100%). But when i then process the images as jpeg's and open them, they look totally different, in other words when comparing those jpeg's at less than 100% to the corresponding dng's at less than 100%. Specifically, the sharpened DNG's always look far sharper than their corresponding jpeg's when viewing at sizes less than 100%. But then when I open the DNG to 100% and the JPG to 100%, they look exactly the same. Why is this and is this normal? Thank you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Marty Posted January 25, 2010 Share #2 Posted January 25, 2010 Are you opening the JPGs in the same application as the DNGs? If so there might well be a difference at less than 100%, and who knows even at 100%; don't forget about JPG compression quality and artifacts. But any sharpening effect should only be assessed at 100% or more. LR even warns about this in the sharpening panel. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
novice9 Posted January 28, 2010 Author Share #3 Posted January 28, 2010 Thanks for the feedback. So, if I am going to print at less than 100% (is that possible?), I just have to print to see what the image is going to look like once its printed? (As yet I have never printed a digital image, I haven't even purchased a printer yet but plan on doing so shortly, so perhaps "printing at less than 100%" doesn't make any sense?) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
haroldp Posted January 28, 2010 Share #4 Posted January 28, 2010 You are displaying at 72 dpi and printing (usually) at 300 or 600 ppi. View at 100 % to visually set sharpening (short of halo's), and print at whatever size you like, it will scale. Regards ... Harold Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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