Sharpening for web gallery output?

Question

I'm just wondering what you all do to sharpen your images for output to web galleries, since LR doesn't offer this as a possibility.
I guess one way would be to open the images from the gallery folder and do a batch process in Photoshop. But I'm curious to know if there's a simpler or more efficient way to go about it.

Answer 1

[email protected] schrieb:
> I also often post images larger than 800x800 that need a bit more
> sharpening. Herb, would you be willing to share a bit more about
> droplets and how you integrate them with your LR workflow?
In PS, using "Droplets" one can generate operating system level
executables. They provide a mean to hand image files over to "actions"
(macros) recorded in PS.
In order to create an "export action" for LR, one would roughly do the
following:
- In PS, record an action which does the following:
* Apply USM with suitable parameters (like radius 0.9, amount 30,
treshold 3) to an image already opened in PS.
* Save for web/save as JPEG (target folder will be hardcoded and thus
fixed).
* Close image without saving changes.
- In PS, select File / Automate / Droplet and create a new droplet
* Choose an executable file name
* select the previously recorded action
* choose target: none (Since we already saved files to JPEG)
- Put the generated executable or a shortcut/link to it into LR's
"export action" folder.
For export with output sharpen, in LR:
- File / Export
- Choose some target folder (will be fixed; for temporary image files)
- file format: PSD or TIFF
- color space: sRGB (for web export)
- maximum size: target size as needed, e.G. 1280x1024 for SXGA files
- export action: select the previously created droplet
Save these settings as a new export preset (like "SXGA").
From now on, one would just need to export using that preset. LR would
render already resized PSD files, start PS, batch sharpen them and save
JPEG files to the directory chosen while recording the PS action.
Herb