Lightroom Selective Sharpening Part II!!

Hey all,

Some of you saw my "Selective Sharpening" project with a squirrel:

https://photography-on-the.net …/showthread.php​?t=1127481

After that project I decided to take on another "critter" shot from last year, a rabbit!

This was shot with the 1D3 at ISO 800, not a real high ISO for that camera, but between a busy background and a bit of noise I just wasn't particularly pleased.

Here's the original (no cropping or special processing aside from LR 1.4 defaults), followed by a close crop. You can see some of the problem with that background there!:

Even with 8 gigs of ram (and a quad core processor) a complicated adjustment brush mask can really bog things down. Thanks for posting these, this is a way of dealing with noise in LR that I had completely overlooked.

Dustin Mustangs wrote in post #13576330
Even with 8 gigs of ram (and a quad core processor) a complicated adjustment brush mask can really bog things down. Thanks for posting these, this is a way of dealing with noise in LR that I had completely overlooked.

Well, Dustin, like I said I hope it can be an encouragement! But yeah, it's a resource hog!

Tony, you probably know this already you Lightroom Fundi, but did you remember to turn off any lens corrections before attempting the adjustment brush marathon?

Oh and I forgot to add that I think you did a Fantastic job!

May I ask what the brush settings were for the fine hair part? Did you tick the auto mask box?

cagenuts wrote in post #13579744
Tony, you probably know this already you Lightroom Fundi, but did you remember to turn off any lens corrections before attempting the adjustment brush marathon?

I just have the lens correction settings on the default settings, whatever those are. I don't mess with the lens corrections stuff unless I need to, so I don't know if they affected performance or not!

cagenuts wrote in post #13579755
Oh and I forgot to add that I think you did a Fantastic job!

May I ask what the brush settings were for the fine hair part? Did you tick the auto mask box?

Hey, thanks for the compliment!

As to the fine hairs, yes, auto mask was checked, and it can be a help. But at the same time those dang fine hairs can be more of a pain than they can be worth -- I zoomed in at a 2:1 view and went over a lot of them with very small brushes, both to soften edges and to resharpen, but at some point I gave up, since the processing resources required would clobber me at almost every move!

This just demonstrates I need to give more thought to using the selective brush technique in LR3. I really dont get the most out of it.

Tony, in that case just check that this option is NOT selected as it negatively affects performance on computers with less than desired resources.

Thanks for the adjustment brush feedback.

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cagenuts wrote in post #13579926
Tony, in that case just check that this option is NOT selected as it negatively affects performance on computers with less than desired resources.

Yeah, mine stays off, in fact it stays in Manual mode. I don't often use the feature, but when I need to I'll usually do it in Manual.

Hey, I'm happy to have the tools! I just am limited as to how much I can use them, and I have thousands of wildlife/bird shots that could really benefit from them!