Comments on: Sharpening For Landscape Photos

By: Marc Schmittbuhl

Marc Schmittbuhl — Sat, 23 Apr 2022 11:56:23 +0000

Hi Scott,
Nice summary for fine LR sharpening. I was wondering, if you need to increase sharpening on say a 45mpx landscape photo (already using some texture+clarity) and you start your sharpening setting at 70 amount and 1.1 radius, from your experience would you rather increase the amount only, or the radius only, or both to crank it up ?
Thanks.

By: NotoriousRLS

NotoriousRLS — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 19:09:35 +0000

Now that we have masks in LR, maybe a check mark on them individually to allow not sharpening of them selectively ? I know, too much like PS…

By: Dudley Warner

Dudley Warner — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:48:22 +0000

This was incredibly helpful and will become a part of my workflow for all my landscape photos. I used it on an image I previously made, and it enhanced it considerably. The image was just chosen for the cover of a state-wide magazine.

Thanks – Dudley

By: Scott Kelby

Scott Kelby — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 15:29:54 +0000

In reply to Billy from Glasgow. Thanks, Billy. Cheers :)

By: Scott Kelby

Scott Kelby — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 15:27:13 +0000

In reply to Simon Grosset. Hi, Simon. Sharpening in general is always about increasing the contrast in edge areas to give the appearance of a sharper image (and it works wonders), but I've always thought of the term "edge sharpening" in the context of using Photoshop's High Pass filter for sharpening, but like I said, it believe it refers to the entire process of sharpening, and there are so many different methods and filters that do just that. :)

By: Simon Grosset

Simon Grosset — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 14:58:34 +0000

Is this what is known as edge sharpening? Because there are no defined edges in the sky (or on skin) they don’t get sharpened?

By: Billy from Glasgow

Billy from Glasgow — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 08:54:45 +0000

Good tips as always. Thank you