Export with Photokit Sharpening

I am trying to figure out how to use the export function of LR to somehow export and sharpen with Photokit. There is a box for "post-processing" in the LR export window but I'm not sure if I need to make a droplet from CS3 or an action or what to get it to sharpen as I export. If a droplet needs to be made, how exactly is that done or does anyone have one that they have written already? Thanks.

ariaaudio, LR just invokes the droplet as if you dropped the file on it no matter where you export the file to. The droplet does not have to live in the same folder at all. The droplet does have to live in a specific folder where LR looks for export actions.
John, this depends on how you set it up. Do you let LR scale to the final size or do you include scaling in the photoshop action/droplet. In the last case, you could make a photoshop action that takes an input file, scales to a certain preset size, sharpens, converts to the final color space, lowers bit depth and then saves as a jpeg. I have a few of these. Unfortunately they are not very versatile as they will only work for a specific output size.

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