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Originally Posted by photoguy2003
OH MY GOSH!!! all this time with "soft" images. I thought something was wrong with my camera...lol...all my images use to look like the first image from rfs now i know how to use the RAW editor and it makes a huge difference. Thanks for the sharpening tip rfs.  |
Even if you don't shoot RAW, you can still get sharp photos out of the camera. If shooting JPG, then be sure to experiment with the contrast and sharpness parameters. Since a small JPG preview image will be embedded with the RAW file (1500x1000 approx), it is wise to get the parameters settings correct and to also strive for good WB in the camera. A good starting point for many dSLRs is to set the contrast and sharpness parameters to one notch above center and test how that looks.
And, while the RAW converter does a good job at sharpening it cannot do as good of job as some of the tools within PHotoshop itself. So that's why I use the three stage method I mentioned. The first stage in the RAW converter is more or less automatic since I let the ACR do light sharpening. But this is not as much sharpening as it would default to. I always tweak the settings to do just a little, but not too much.
Cheers,
rfs