I think that most advice is to do everything you can in RAW to get to
your final visualization, except for sharpening and noise reduction,
which are best done by other applications. Spend some time at your
library or your book store with Bruce Fraser's Real Camera Raw. Even
though his last books was for CS2 the background and reasoning are
still valid.
Do any noise removal first and then sharpen. I like PhotoKit
Sharpener which was developed by a group of Photoshop pros. It
sharpens in two or three stages. Initial is for the film size/digital
resolution so you have a clue as to what the image looks like when
you are doing final editing. Stage II happens if you want to do any
"artistic" sharpening which I almost never need or want to do. Third
stage is to sharpen for the final use of the image. The amounts and
sharpening tools differ depending on final size and whether it is a
print, kind of print, or an internet image. Very easy to use and very
good results.
Review here:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/software/pk-sharpener.shtml
Winsor
Long Beach, CA
USA
On Aug 31, 2007, at 3:15 PM, Johann Thorsson wrote:
> I have a simple question to all you experienced gurus out there. I
> have
> been using the raw PS plugin (CS2) for a while for all my raw
> processing.
> It works fine, but there is one thing which I am a bit confused
> over. The
> raw developer allows you to sharpen the image among other things
> but it
> never seems to give quite as good results as the unsharp mask. And
> same
> goes with lot of other things. As a result I hardly ever do
> anything in the
> raw plugin but correcting the exposure. And now I am just curious,
> those of
> you who use the PS raw, what do you correct before importing the
> image in to
> the program?
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