What are your Sharpening, Clarify and Noise reduction sweet spots ?
Dear all,
I've been working with Capture One since version 15. I'm still struggling though about Sharpening and Clarify. From time to time, after exporting for social media or my website, I end up with images that seem over-sharpened and/or showing halos or unwanted artefacts. I'm using a Canon 7D Mark II Body and mostly using 2 lenses : 16-35 EF 2.8 and the 70-200mm EF 2.8. Expecting those to be sharp lenses.
I was wondering what are your sweet spot in terms of Sharpening, Noise Reduction and Clarity presets ? This may help me improve my workflow and establish what i may over-do.
I tend to use the following as my import presets to start with upon importing in RAW format :
LENS CORRECTION : Diffraction Correction, Chromatic Aberration and Hide distorded areas - ALL CHECKED
SHARPENING : Amount (500) / Radius (1) / Treshold (0)
CLARITY : Natural / Clarity (0) / Structure (0) (I may go up 10 for both from time to time)
NOISE REDUCTION : Luminance (50) / Details (50) / Colors (25) / Single pixel (0)
Let me know your thoughts and what you are using as your go to settings.
Thank you all,
Vincent
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Hi Vincent.
I don't have your camera model, not even a Canon. This might matter because the output of each camera (the raw file) is different for different cameras. With that out of the way, here's what think:
C1 defaults are ususally quite good (and usually camera dependent under the hood, e.g. 180 for one camera is not the same as 180 for another, afaik).
I have not seen a default higher than 180 for my Sony or Nikon cameras, I don't think the defaults for Canon are such high as your preset.
If you feel it is oversharpened, then probably because the 500 (in combination with radius 1) preset is too far away from the default.
Do you use sharpening in the export recipe? Note, this sharpening will create halos if overdone, and of course it adds to the already high 500.
The normal sharpening tool though has a halo slider which you can use (this is missing in the output/export sharpen tool, imo).
Sharpening is very subjective. And dependent on the image in question.
You said already that oftentimes you think your images look oversharpened, but it can be a creative choice (if it fits to the image/subject). I personally don't like oversharpened images though.
I would go with the default (is this maybe something like 180 radius 1?) and then decide for each image if the whole image (or a part of it) would benefit from additional sharpening.
You can even create a filled layer and add sharpening, even with a different radius then the background layer.
Or, create a mask and sharpen your (in-focus) subject or parts of it, leave the out of focus areas alone. This is called "creative sharpening".
Further reading/googleing: Three phases, input sharpening, creative sharpening, output sharpening. The latter is more important if you want to print the image (it usually should be sharper or even 'oversharpened') than for web/computer usage).Structure is a bit like a high radius sharpening. I use it to, also Clarity. You can use both for creative/selective sharpening too.
I also use lens corrections. I like Diffraction Correction particularly (for my lenses).
Some experts (and I'm not) do sharpening in other tools (e.g. Photoshop, Affinity, Nik collection), maybe some basic sharpening (less is better) in C1 and then export to tiff (did you see the option to disable ALL sharpening in the export recipe and asked yourself what this is?) and then using high-freqency and low-frequency sharpening, or wavelets in these other tools.
I'm happy though what I can achieve in C1 using layers.
Cheers,
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The settings are lens and camera dependent. For my case nikon z user with all z lenses, I remove some of the sharpness and clarity as the default is not on my licking.
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dont use presets for sharpening. each pic is different. dont use export recipe for sharpening.
follow beo advise and make a layer call it sharpening add clarity and sharpening clear the mask and use a brush to add it where you like it. i think thats the best was to have control...
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