Sharpening - The Enhancement Technique
Sharpening, is an enhancement technique that is easily overdone and this is true even when applying the changes at the time of raw conversion. The best approach is to remember that sharpening should be applied to photos as the very last step in the editing/enhancement process and that the settings used need to match the type of output the photo is destined for. In practice this means images that are not going to be edited after raw conversion should be sharpened within ACR, but those pictures that are going to be enhanced further should have a small amount of subtle sharpening applied in ACR and specific output sharpening applied later using the specialist filters in Photoshop. Sharpening is also required to apply clipping path or deep etching because images must have good visible edge to apply perfect clipping path. When a picture is first opened into the ACR the program sets the sharpening and noise values based on the camera type and model used to capture the image. For many p