Sharpening in LR4, editing in CS5.

Normally, I do basic cropping and tonal adjustments in LR, export tiffs to print size with a bit of sharpening. Then do the retouching in CS5. But I have a girl with really, really bat acne. So to save large retouched files on her, I am Cntrl/e'ing and retouching/softening her directly in CS5. So, my question is the sharpening I have set in LR applied before it is sent to CS5 (is this actually the same as an export), or is it only applied at export of the sized tiffs?

Sharpening adjustments set in the Detail panel are applied to image that gets sent to Photoshop and Export. Sharpening applied to an image from within the Export dialog (i.e. screen or paper type) are applied on top of the Detail panel sharpening. Also, export sharpening is based on image rez and media type. Images ent to Photoshop do not have export sharpening applied.

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