Question for Capture one / raw shooters

[Pat...]

Do you sharpen the raw file and/or the exported jpeg. Is there a difference and would it be better to only do an unsharp mask on the jpeg?

[narlus]

i use ACR and not C1, but yes i do any sharpening on jpgs in photoshop, after resizing.

[maxyedor]

The Raw image is completly unsharpened, so I typicaly crank the sharpening up to 50% before opening it into Photoshop, then after any resize and before I print I run Smart sharpen.

[Pat...]

That's what I have been doing, Narlus. I was wondering if my way was good, or if there was a better way. What's Smart sharpen? Is that a cs2 thing?

[narlus]

well the way i understand it, sharpening is a destructive/irreversible process, what i do is do all my editing/tonal & color corrections on the full-size 16bit PSD file, save that, then convert to 8 bit and downside the image, and then sharpen.

that way, i've got the full-res PSD file to go back to and do any tweaks if i want to have anything available for prints or additional jpgs.

not sure if this is the best way, but it works pretty well so far.