{"id":504,"date":"2007-06-28T00:09:07","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T15:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-06-28\/504"},"modified":"2007-06-30T19:36:20","modified_gmt":"2007-06-30T10:36:20","slug":"freaky-artsy-sharpening-with-lightroom-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-06-28\/504","title":{"rendered":"Freaky “Artsy” Sharpening with Lightroom 1.1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

About a month and a half ago I was futzing around with night exposures\nand took this 30-second picture of the Kyoto Municipal\nMuseum of Art<\/a>. I was wondering<\/span> whether I might<\/span> get the really interesting results<\/a>\nas I did<\/span> during cherry-blossom season, but in this case the result was\nthunderously boring.<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/a>\nNikon D200 + Sigma 30mm f\/1.4 — 30 sec, f\/6.3, ISO 200 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nBoring<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n
<\/a>\nMaxed out sharpening controlsin\nLightroom 1.1<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n

However, it was about this time that I decided<\/span> to finally start playing\nwith the new sharpening controls in the betas I was<\/span> testing for Lightroom\n1.1,<\/span> and for whatever reason, I used this<\/span> image as my first test.<\/p>\n\n

Proper sharpening seems to be more an art than a science,<\/span> but I don't<\/span>\nreally know much about it in either sense. I've learned a bit<\/span> since\nstarting to play with this (and now there's a long\ntutorial<\/a> by Jeff Schewe on the same controls as they appear in Adobe\nCamera Raw), but it's still somewhat of a guessing<\/span> game for me..<\/p>\n\n

Anyway, at that time I didn't know anything and was just futzing around,\nand discovered that if you turn the controls way up (as shown at right),\nyou can get an artsy “painting” effect. This is not at all how the controls\nare intended to be used, of course, and the effect is strongly dependent on\nthe image, but it certainly can be interesting.<\/p>\n\n

I couldn't talk about this until 1.1 went public, and so now that it has<\/a>, I can show<\/span> the results: here's the image with the maxed-out sharpening.....<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nNot Freaky. Not Artsy. Still Boring<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

Hmmmmm, it's not so different.<\/p>\n\n

To see the freaky effects, you have to look at the full-resolution image\n(that is, one without a resize<\/span> down to a smaller<\/span> size). Here's a snippet<\/span> at\n100% resolution:<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nPainting-like Sharpening Effects<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

As usual, clicking on the images yields a larger<\/span> version.<\/p>\n\n

By the way, take care to note that the Masking<\/b> control is the\nopposite from the others in that moving it to the right reduces<\/i> the\neffect of the other controls. It indications<\/span> how much of the image should\nbe masked off (protected) from the other controls: fully left (a value<\/span> of\nzero, the default setting) means nothing is protected and sharpening\napplies equally to the entire image. Fully right means that most of the\nimage is masked off, with only the most high-contrast areas subject to the\nsharpening controls.<\/p>\n\n

One more warning about using these controls in Lightroom. Results from\nsharpening changes are normally updated on screen in real time only when\nviewing at 1:1 or better. If you're in “Fit” or “Fill” or any other\nless-than-1:1 zoom, moving the controls has no apparent effect except to\nflash the “!”-in-a-triangle warning badge that's shown on the controls when\nnot 1:1 or better.<\/p>\n\n

The sharpening effects will eventually be propagated to the grid\nthumbnail and other smaller versions (you can force it by rendering 1:1\npreviews for the image) but you generally want to be in 1:1 mode while\nadjusting the sharpening.<\/p>\n\n\n

Anyway, I've since found out that this kind of effect is a well<\/span>-known\nartifact of over-sharpening, but having “discovered” it myself, I thought<\/span> it was particularly interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About a month and a half ago I was futzing around with night exposures and took this 30-second picture of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art. I was wondering whether I might get the really interesting results as I did during cherry-blossom season, but in this case the result was thunderously boring.<\/p>

However, it was about this time that I decided to finally start playing with the new sharpening controls in the betas I was testing for Lightroom 1.1, and for whatever reason, I used this image as my first test.<\/p>

Proper sharpening seems to be more an art than [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}