Processing
 

Hi guys and girls, I shoot RAW 99% of the time and in camera/lcd screen and on monitor they are sharp and after a few basic tweaks the colour and sharpnest are spot on. Once converted into jpeg though they look blur and colour etc is a big let down, this happens 50% of the time:confused:. It just seems pot luck which ones process spot on, please help :)

Hi Mike

I shoot in Raw + JPEG and I'm pretty sure that when you view your images in camera it is the JPEG image that you see along with any picture settings you may of set ( sharpness, contrast , saturation etc ) , I think this is true even if you shoot RAW only .
Once I download my shots to the computer and view the Raw files in ACR they always look duller and softer than the JPEG's until I process them but this doesn’t answer your question about the hit and miss results that you are getting .
Could you give us some more information about how you process your images and what software you use .

Mark

Could it be down to the size you save them as; cropping; Jpeg quality when saving?

I'm just starting out in Lightroom but i've noticed the "sharpness" command can have a negative "graining" effect if you push it too far - I know this may be a very naiive comment but could that be the problem?

It's is the beginner lounge after all!

Pictures can have quite a lot of 'noise', particularly at higher ISOs (though it's not too bad in modern cameras). Jpegs will hide the noise quite well but then may need sharpening..... and any noise that may have been almost invisible will be increased.

Sorry for late reply, no email notification : ( Thanks Mark i understand that, im using PSE10 and fingers crossed CS 5.5 v soon. Understand ISO, noise and that there dull till ive played with processing. On screen before converted to jpegs they look great but 50% of the time after converted they come out blurred not sharp, like on LCD or monitor. Maybe i should sharpen a lot more. Mucky boy, thats what im thinking! I only tend to crop a little if any as this is best i believe. One thing i dont do though is change the size and crop or convert into original photo size if that makes sense. Ive noticed that a lot of peoples images are say around 1000x700, myn 4000x 3000 say, is that the problem. Whats a good average size to save to? Thanks for replying, now where that email notification feature!

Just spotted beatnik69, maybe a little crop and then converted to 4000x3000 is enough to stratch and ruin the photo, thanks again

Mick

I always sharpen a second time if and when I convert to jpg, which is usually for uploading to the web. When I convert to jpg I always apply an High Pass sharpen as I find this method does not increase any artifacts.

A good read on sharpening can be found by going to Cambridgeincolour. Well worth reading, but you may have to supply an email address.

[URL="http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/image-sharpening.htm"]http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/image-sharpening.htm[/URL]

Harry

On Sunday, I found out that if I sharpen a photo in Photoshop, it doesn't look sharp when viewed in Bridge. I don't get it!!