Keith Plechaty

I'm ouput sharpening photos for a photo book. It will be printed with continuous tone and I imagin be viewed from roughly 2 feet away. Nik sharpener has an auto option for distant as well as a set distance. I chose 2 feet, but is it any different or better to choose auto?

Would it be best to use Nik Sharpener for output sharpening when I am printing with Silver halide?

Is it true that Lightroom cannot sharpen for silver halide prints?

can Lightroom's output sharpening be used for photos that are made by exposing on silver halide?

Hi. I've been doing my photobooks in InDesign and want to run my processing steps by everyone. I print them at Adorama, which prints on photo paper and does not use an actual printer. 1. Import raw file into lightroom 2. Apply general sharpening (setting of 50) and do any color corrections 3. Export pictures at full size (with no output sharpening applied) and bring them into InDesign. 4. After figuring out what size I want the images sized to, I run a script that downsizes all images to 100%. 5. Then I import the downsized images into lightroom and export them with output sharpening applied. 6. Make a PDF of the book and then rasterize each page to be uploaded to their book maker. Does this sound ok? I'm always worried about over sharpening. I thought glossy standard would be a pretty good setting for printing on Luster paper.