Lightroom sharpening

I want to do all my sharpening in CS2. Is there a way to turn off the sharpening in LR altogether (as there is in ACR), so I don't have to manually do it each time??

The only thing I can think of is to set the sharpening in one image to zero when in Develop.

Then in Synchronize all the other photos, using everything "checked off" except sharpening. This should only change the sharpening setting. Just be sure that only the sharpen box is checked!

There may be a way to set sharpening to zero when importing, but I don't know how.

In the import photos options box you can apply a develop preset, just create one with the sharpening set to 0 and apply that preset when you import.

Bingo.

On another note, is there a way to replicate the USM in Lightroom as it is in Photoshop?

Grizz wrote in post #3081944
In the import photos options box you can apply a develop preset, just create one with the sharpening set to 0 and apply that preset when you import.

Nope. LR sharpening is pretty bad I round trip to PS for sharpening and noise reduction. I have herad the LR adobe will address this problem in a future LR update.

Grizz wrote in post #3081944
In the import photos options box you can apply a develop preset, just create one with the sharpening set to 0 and apply that preset when you import.

I am new at LR, so see if this makes sense.
I opened up a New Develop Preset and unchecked everything except Sharpening. Then I just clicked on the icon to "Turn Off Sharpening". I did not slide to "0". And then when I imported next time The sharpening was turned off.

Does this do the same thing. It was my understanding that if you used this icon (switch) and that section went GRAY, they you had turned it off and no sharpening would be applied??

I don't use sharpening in LR at all. I always export to PS for resizing, NR and USM. Sharpening is the last thing I do before I save the image for output.

Perhaps Adobe or a third party company will create a seperate module dedicated to resizing, noise reduction, and sharpening, or at least have refined controls in the Develop module to address this critical piece of the workflow. Truthfully, I find transferring images from the the Develop module to CS3 is so smooth and fluid, I don't mind exporting the file outside of LR to finalize processing.

Lord_Malone wrote in post #3084651
Truthfully, I find transferring images from the the Develop module to CS3 is so smooth and fluid, I don't mind exporting the file outside of LR to finalize processing.

I agree and it's really no different than what you have to do with Bridge and PS.

rfreschner wrote in post #3087348
I agree and it's really no different than what you have to do with Bridge and PS.

I agree too. I do my sharpening in CS2. But don't like having to tune sharpening off in LR on every photo.. So I have tried to build a develop preset to be done during import.

I assume that once opened in LR if the sharpening tool is grayed out it is"Turned off"??