Sharpening details

Almost every digital capture can benefit from some amount of sharpening in Camera Raw. …Just to make up from any loss of sharpness in the capture process. …So let's take a look at this image here of the cannon and we'll use Cmd+R or …Ctrl+R in order to open that into Camera RAW. …Now depending on whether or not you have your shadow and highlight clipping …warnings on, you might see some little red overlays or some blue overlays. …So let's go ahead and turn both those off by clicking on them in the histogram. …Now we're going to move over to the detail panel and take a look at the sharpening.…

What Camera Raw is automatically adding, and what we can see here for the amount …being 25, that is what we're going to call input or capture sharpening, as …opposed to output sharpening. And the goal here in Camera Raw is to add …as much sharpening as needed, to simply make the image look good on the screen here. …This is not where you would add sharpening for a specific output device, …that's handled later in the workflow when you actually save a file from Camera Raw …