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What is your preferred sharpness setting?

Dillon
My distributer initially set me up with no sharpness setting. Everything was added in Photoshop later on. Wow, I've been missing out on quite a bit of detail after checking it out on the upgrade. Your posts regarding the noise issue, have also been very helpful. I've since lowered it to minimum, except when needed.

Here are my settings, they are almost exclusively for architecture. The standard method looks too crunchy to be of value to me.

What is everyone else setting? What is your subject matter?

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  • bob111
    Dear Dillon

    Sharpness settings depend on too many factors to give a true answer in one go. I keep C1 sharpness disabled because any USM depends on how the images will be used. USM should be the last thing done before output. Colour corrections in PS or retouching should all be done first.

    Digital files are massively improved by using 'selective' sharpening techniques in PS.

    Bob Croxford
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  • studio78
    My sharpness settings seem to change with my moods 😊 Seriously I've noticed Capture 1 has much more usable sharpness tools now than when I first tried them some versions ago, I think they're particularly useful on batch work that needs very little additional processing.

    Dave Robertson
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  • Jeffrey Totaro
    I recently changed my settings from the default and find much more detail in the shadows of long exposures. I keep sharpening set to Standard Look, but both values at 0, and Noise and Banding also at 0. This also helps reduce moire in fine patterns.

    Interesting to note that disableing sharpening and setting Standard Look to 0 are different. Standard at zero gives some sharpening even at 0.
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