Sharpening issue

[Digifrog]

Hi there

I seem to have an issue when it comes to sharpening my images. It could actually be in fact my monitor. I sharpen images that look fine on my monitor then when I get to my PC in work the same image looks over-sharpened. This is a typical example of what I mean...

Shot with the Nikon 24-70 and radio release used. Unsharp Mask was used to selectively sharpen the rocks only with a small amount of dodge and burn.

Does this image look good or bad on your monitor? How can I best solve this issue without actually having to buy a Dell UltraSharp monitor? Some images from other people I know look tack sharp (via sharpening) with textures that pop so my monitor should be OK to calibrate how much sharpening I need to do.

Thanks in advance.

Scott

 

[TheDrift-]

Looking at this on a mbp, if anything it looks undersharpened for this rez,


I had a go I didnt bother to selectively apply the sharpening which would have helped, (30 sec job) I also think i have gone a to far and would dail this down a bit,..but i do think there is room to further sharpen for this rez.

 

[Ploddles]

Looks good on my MBP.

 

[swanseamale47]

It doesn't look to bad to me, if anything I'd probably add a little more sharpening to the forground.

 

[Digifrog]

Thank you for the feedback.

Looking at this on a mbp, if anything it looks undersharpened for this rez,

Really?? I tend to use Unsharp Mask and using the magnifying loupe I increase until there is obvious haloing and then I back down a bit. I'm still unclear about the best way of sharpening (UM is popular) but I'm unclear whether I shoud be adding another step to the process.

I find that if too much UM is applied it tends to look cracked and ridden with artefacts. I use usually about 120% @ 1.0. I'd be interested to hear feedback and see examples of viewers own sharpening processes.

 

[graphilly]

It doesn't look bad to me either but maybe a little more sharpening required.

I tend to only ever select the dark areas and sharpen them using unsharp mask. As for percentage it can vary from 50%-500% depending on what it is and what size.

 

[TheDrift-]

Thank you for the feedback.

Really?? I tend to use Unsharp Mask and using the magnifying loupe I increase until there is obvious haloing and then I back down a bit. I'm still unclear about the best way of sharpening (UM is popular) but I'm unclear whether I shoud be adding another step to the process.

I find that if too much UM is applied it tends to look cracked and ridden with artefacts. I use usually about 120% @ 1.0. I'd be interested to hear feedback and see examples of viewers own sharpening processes.

Don't forget you have the full rez version, down sampling to this size will soften the image, it will also hide all those nasty artefacts.

It's not uncommon to sharpen @ 200-400% for a lower Rez web image.

120@1&1 doesn't sound to far of the mark for sharpening,

It's good practice to capture sharpen,selective sharpen and then finally output sharpen. All to often I can't be bothered to mess around that much, but I'd sure try if my pics were as good as yours.

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