Sharpening images in lightroom

I used to do sharpening in the following order: Amount of sharpening>radius>details>masking.
Recently, I read an article which recommended to start with Masking first before changing the amount, radius and details.
I wonder which process is more effective?

If you follow your process line, you probably want to revisit the amount after you do the masking. You might find that you can push it a little further than before. I usually go amount (increase to somewhere near 50)-> masking so no sky or smooth areas are sharpened -> fine-tune amount -> if needed (rarely) play with radius and details.

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I've been wavering back and forth about the best course of action to sharpen images for my photo books that will be printed on an HP Indigo at Sharedink. Do you think the below steps will yield good results?
So far my process has been:
Edit images in Lightroom (color correction, exposure adjustments, and capture sharpening, etc)
Output full sized tiffs (no output sharpening) to a folder and then import them into my Indesign layout.
Once finalized, I run a script to resize all images in InDesign to 100%.
I'd like to apply some output sharpening to these re-sized images and was wondering if importing the images into Lightroom and then exporting them with output sharpening set to Matte Low Setting would yield good results. I don't need a ton of sharpening. I'm just concerned that the Lightroom sharpening is not optimized for Halftone output.
Thanks for any advice.

Hello,
just a guess: Aperture does sharpening during export based on size and designated output process. Just try to export to mail in different sizes: You always get a properly sharpened image, e.g. when exporting to 320px or to 2640px. And from my tests it looks like the images in the book-pdfs are treated the same way - althought edge width of the sharpening tool seems to be somewhat altered to reflect the 300DPI for book output vs. the 72dpi for Internet (mail) output.
Just a quick remark on sharpening: It just will not do to just sharpen the images independent of output size and resolution, as it is described in an earlier posting in this thread. As soon as an image is scaled more than 120% up or 80% down, dramatic quality losses are inevitable.
Regards,
Dieter

Don't my clients deserve to see sharpened images?

I do quite a bit of portrait photography for clients, and the images are shown to my clients in a presentation either on my laptop or a large screen. Why can't I show my clients a sharpened image from within Lightroom 1.1? Sharpening is definitely visible on a large monitor, and with 1.0 the sharpening was visible in other views. Now with 1.1 the slideshow turns off sharpening! I can understand that turning on sharpening everywhere could have performance problems, but the whole point of a slideshow is to show images to people! Shouldn't they look their best?
The second most common usage for my photos is in my online gallery, and with the new Lightroom 1.1 sharpening the only way to see how the sharpened image is going to look online is to export and view the images in a separate program! Does that make any sense? I might as well just export the image into photoshop to sharpen.
Finally, when setting the sharpening parameters I realize you can see more of the sharpening effects at 100%, but at least in Photoshop one can see both the 100% view and the image at any magnification, which is really useful in determining how that image will look like both when viewed on the web and when printed.

Generating on-the-fly previews for slideshows is not unprecedented -- Aperture does this very thing. And it does take Aperture a good few moments to go through this process before it launches your slideshow.
Perhaps LR should have a feature to automatically generate temporary 1:1 previews for slideshows. Or to just generate 'standard previews' WITH sharpening (as of now, I can't tell the application of sharpness in the Develop module on 'standard previews', only on 1:1 previews zoomed out to 'fit') for slideshows.
Or just, in general, a feature to ALWAYS generate 1:1 previews.
Mixed bag... dunno what the best combo would be.
-Rishi

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I do have Photoshop CS-6 and Lightroom 5. Nearly all images were created in a Windows 7 (64 bit) environment. I have moved platforms to MAC. I have moved all images and the Catalog. I have changed platform to MAC. I am now using MAC OS-X (10.9.1).
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Another expirience is, when I try to open directly from Photoshop any other image, Photoshop ignores the XMP and opens the original file without any modification.
That's normal if the raw files were originally edited in Lightroom. Lightroom stores all edits in the catalog, not the xmp sidecar. You can set Lightroom to write to xmp as well, but that slows it down a little and so it's off by default. The Lightroom shortcut ctrl/cmd+S will also save to xmp.
I do have a warining at several images in Lightroom = "metadates have been changed - would you like to overwrite data or import ?"
That's related to the above, and also normal if you go the other way - edit in ACR and then move to Lightroom. It'll then be in xmp, but not the Lightroom catalog.
As for the missing on-screen image, that's a common video driver bug (although I suppose other causes are possible). For Windows you can download updated drivers directly from the manufacturer's website, but that's not possible with Mac. You'll have to wait for Apple to fix it.

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