roel_ruijs Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 When i work my 5D Raw files in Digital Photo Prof.(DPP) They are very sharp.When converting them to JPG in the highest quality there getting softer, evenwhen I put sharpness on the highest level. The sharpness control doesn't reallymake a diffirence(it does when your working with it, before I convert). I alsotried it when the noise reduction was of. Can someone help? Thanx Roel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwhite3.0 Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 How do they look when you sharpen them up in Photoshop or some other program? To me it sounds like you are sharpening in DPP rather than in Photoshop. I find that after most raw conversions there needs to be a little sharpening done. You may also want to try converting your RAW files to TIFF rather than JPEG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnMWright Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Roel, I don't use DPP, so this is a stab in the dark. I import my RAW files with PS CS2. There is a sharpen feature in the import utility that says it works for the preview only. My thought is, maybe DPP is giving you a sharpened preview but when you convert it hasn't really done the sharpening? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevtapisik Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Roel, Try transfering to Photoshop from the Edit Window using "Tools/Transfer to Photoshop". "File/Convert and Save" converts the RAW file into JPG or TIFF directly without any adjustments you made. I hope it helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuppyDigs Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 It's better to sharpen post-conversion according to target print size. Otherwise you end up sharpening multiple times one on top of another. Why? You need different amounts of sharpening for web, small prints and large prints. Sometimes the light’s all shining on me. Other times I can barely see. - Robert Hunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beauh44 Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 What Puppy said. Photoshop CS defaults to some arbitrary sharpened value (25? 25 what?) which I always slide back to zero then sharpen based on the output. An image destined for the web needs a very light touch in the sharpening department as opposed to a large print which needs quite a bit more. That's another reason I avoid Photoshop's "Bicubic Sharper" interpolation; there's no "one size fits all" approach to sharpening, I'm afraid. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
preston_merchant Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 What program are you using to view the post-processed, post-sharpened files? If it's Windows Image Viewer, they will look very soft, no matter how sharp you made them. If you look at them in Photoshop or DPP again, they will look like you expect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbalko Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Whoa! Sevtap, I can't speak for Roel, but, if what you say is true, another leap forward in Phil B's digital darkroom. Dawn breaks on marble head. Thanks. And I thought it was just my incompetence. Oh, yeah. I guess it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevtapisik Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Phil B, Sorry it is my bad. I swear I had the same problem and was getting around it by transferring as I explained before or with batch process. I upgraded to the latest DPP version very recently, tried now and it is working just fine. I don't know if it was a problem with the early version, cannot verify now. Maybe I was just plain confused. Sorry again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronald_moravec1 Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 My photoshop book says do not sharpen in RAW. Sharpen as a last step in Photoshop and that means the final size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbalko Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 Thanks anyway, Sevtap. I suppose I can read the manual. Again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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