When-where to resize and sharpen.

Hi there

I have a little doubt if im doing something wrong in my workflow. Im a bit torn where the resizing should be done and when...before or after the sharpening and in what software?

This what i do when i need pictures for the webgallery.

I do most of the work on my rawfiles in Lightroom. After im done with
the adjustments i save them as jpegs (quality 70, sRGB, 72ppi) and resize (usually 1024*768 ) them at the same time all in Lightroom.

After that i apply eventual noise reduction and sharpening in PS CS2.

Is this the correct way to do it i wonder?

Is this a better way maybe?

First save them as maximum quality jpegs (100, sRGB, 300ppi) in Ligthroom.
Then apply eventual noise reduction and sharpening in PS CS2
to lastly finish with the resizing and lowering of the resolution.

Or should i resize before the sharpening?


Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Bollan wrote in post #3147628
Hi there

I have a little doubt if im doing something wrong in my workflow. Im a bit torn where the resizing should be done and when...before or after the sharpening and in what software?

This what i do when i need pictures for the webgallery.

I do most of the work on my rawfiles in Lightroom. After im done with
the adjustments i save them as jpegs (quality 70, sRGB, 72ppi) and resize (usually 1024*768 ) them at the same time all in Lightroom.

After that i apply eventual noise reduction and sharpening in PS CS2.

Is this the correct way to do it i wonder?

Is this a better way maybe?

First save them as maximum quality jpegs (100, sRGB, 300ppi) in Ligthroom.
Then apply eventual noise reduction and sharpening in PS CS2
to lastly finish with the resizing and lowering of the resolution.

Or should i resize before the sharpening?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

first why save them as jpeg in LR first? PS will open the raws fine.

I would denoise, sharpen, then resize.

just make an action then run it on the folder, get a cup of coffee they will be all done.

Bob

Use the full resolution file for all adjustments including noise reduction. Noise reduction algorithms work best when they're dealing with the original pixels.

Then resize, and always sharpen after resizing. If the image is for screen viewing (web gallery), use USM with a radius of 0.5 or less.

If you are using a program other than Lightroom for noise reduction then this unfortunately adds an extra step to your workflow. But you might find that resizing alone gets rid of most of the noise and you don't need that extra step. In this case, you can just resize on export from Lightroom, then sharpen and you're done.

When I finish adjusting in Lightroom I export the file as a jpg or tiff. 90% of the time no further processing is required.

I then use Qimage to print. It never resizes or sharpens the original file, but resharpens and sends to interpolated pixel size to the printer as part of the printing process. That way I don't have to do different files for different size prints.

I use (a modified version of) Manyk SRS for web output.

Thanks for the different suggestions guys .

So i guess it doesn't really matter if i resize in LR or in PS as long as i sharpen after i have done that.

I try to stay as long as possible of course in LR to simplify my workflow a bit. Just leaving the sharpening to PS and eventual denoising.