Sharpening

I know this one of those really technical things probably meant to be on another forum.

I am on a 1dmark II taking JPG for papers shooting footy - anyone care to share their sharpening technique ?

It needs to be quick and easy but having spoken to a much younger more IT proficient tog yesterday I now know I could be getting much more out of mny images if only I knew how

Usually with people in the shot, I use 70, 1.0, 5 and range the amount (the 70) from 45 to 85 depending on what the shot needs.

A shot with no people, I use 250, .5, 0 and range the amount (the 250) from 100 to 300.

I have set in-camera sharpening to 0, since I have feeling, I can have more control later on, but I can be wrong. As far as sharpening in PS goes, for newspapers you can easily something like 300, 0.6-1.2, 0. They add some much more aggressive sharpening before print anyway. For print they normally use much more aggressive sharpening then someone would imagine.

Thank you

if its a northcliff paper do not sharpen its all done in the print process and you end up with over sharpened photos

I agree with Darsk. However, once sharpened I use a technique from Scott Kelby...click on edit and "select fade unsharp mask"...use mode "Luminosity.

This method can prevent halos, beacuse the sharpening is only applied to the greyscale.

Roy Webber wrote in post #5226539
I agree with Darsk. However, once sharpened I use a technique from Scott Kelby...click on edit and "select fade unsharp mask"...use mode "Luminosity.

This method can prevent halos, beacuse the sharpening is only applied to the greyscale.

Very interesting tip Roy, i hadn't heard that one before, so cheers.

Roy Webber wrote in post #5226539
I agree with Darsk. However, once sharpened I use a technique from Scott Kelby...click on edit and "select fade unsharp mask"...use mode "Luminosity.

This method can prevent halos, beacuse the sharpening is only applied to the greyscale.

Any idea if this works in Elements - or only in CS3? It seems I tend to sharpen at much lower numbers than those described above because I'm trying to prevent those lovely halos.

Scott, no problem sharing techniques...The best book I ever purchased was by Scott Kelby "The photoshop book for digital photographers"

My version was for photoshop 7, but there must be a newer updated version available. Not cheap, but worth the cost!

Mum2, I am sorry, no idea as I don't have the program.

Check out the link in my sig to the sticky.

My school newspaper requests no sharpening because they sharpen based on the size of the photo in the paper and also the sharpening algorithms for newspaper are different than traditional print. So I'd check with them.

slappy sam wrote in post #5272798
My school newspaper requests no sharpening because they sharpen based on the size of the photo in the paper and also the sharpening algorithms for newspaper are different than traditional print. So I'd check with them.

most also include levels and a hue and saturation adjustment as well

the rule is get it right in camera and forget about it

Roy Webber wrote in post #5226539
I agree with Darsk. However, once sharpened I use a technique from Scott Kelby...click on edit and "select fade unsharp mask"...use mode "Luminosity.

This method can prevent halos, beacuse the sharpening is only applied to the greyscale.

I use a similar technique, but I convert to LAB and select only the lightness channel before sharpening. This technique won't work in Elements, since I don't think it allows for selecting specific channels.