Sharpening upon export?

If I tell Lightroom to take a folder of raw files, and make then into 600x400 pixel jpegs, and place those somewhere, are the resulting pix sharpened?
Dean

I agree. Downscaling in LR gives relatively "clear" results compared to
other algorithms. Although I preferred to apply some additional
unsharpen mask (using export actions, which are broken on Windows, to
trigger PS). Drawback is that the halos mentioned above get even more
pronounced this way. On the other side, if you do both scaling and
sharpening outside of LR you tend to blow up the amount of data which
has to be stored and processed.
Now that we have the export API, there are export sharpening solutions
popping up. You might have a look at Timothy's Mogrify project mentioned
earlier this day. It calls the free ImageMagick software suite for
sharpening.
I decided to work on an ImageMagick solution, too. My initial impression
has been that for example "Bicubic" resampling in ImageMagick lacks a
bit of impact in direct comparison to "Lanczos", which gives similar
results to LR's internal resizing. But then you get the same halos...
So my preliminary conclusion is that I am absolutely not satisfied with
LR's limited export scaling/sharpening abilities. But on the same time
it's not that bad either.
Herb

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Output sharpening on export

I wonder if there is a way to specify an amount of sharpening that shall be applied to an exported image that is going to be scaled down e.g. for web presentation. My preferred solution would be to include this into an export preset.
I have used this "output sharpening" feature (also known as "web sharpening") within the export preset e.g. in Bibble Pro 5 (yes, another RAW converting software) and it really helps avoiding loss of sharpness as a result of scaling down images. I agree that this is not necessarily needed for each and every image but there are quiet some cases when output sharpening gives them some punch.
As a newbie to Aperture this is what I have learned so far:
Aperture provides various tools to adjust sharpening of images, starting with the sharpening adjustment applied to RAW files (RAW fine tuning) continued by "Sharpen", "Edge Sharpen" up to the possibility to "brush in" sharpening to certain parts of an image.
Apple was so kind as to provide a nice introductory movie clip to illustrate the basic usage of edge sharpening
All these adjustments are applied to the image in its original size of course. As soon as I export images and downsize them (using an appropriate preset) I do not seem to have any influence on how post-processing continues (re: sharpening). I have to rely on how Aperture handles this internally (right?). Surprisingly, this is different when it comes to printing. If the output is print the user may adjust the amount of "output sharpening".
As far as I have seen I am not the first and only one who faces this issue. A more elaborate article on output sharpening with sample images in context with Aperture is given e.g. here.
Another interesting review on "Sharpening with Aperture 3" can be found here.
Of course I have also searched the forums for a suitable solution. As far as I can see a satisfactory solution has not been outlined so far:
Sharpening upon jpeg export
Sharpening export workflow question
Output sharpening
Sharpening during exporting process
Maybe there are some news or workarounds in the meantime. I'd appreciate your proposals and look forward sharing your experience on this issue.

Kirby, I thank you for your kind answer. It is very much appreciated!
After reading one of the articles quoted in my original post I thought that the "BorderFX solution" for output sharpening on export would no longer work. But it obviously does as you report.
In the meantime I have had a look at the BorderFX website. Many features for a plugin - more than I usually need - but an interesting project anyway!
As you supposed I am not that keen on using a plugin for just the sharpening of images going to the web. But it's at least a workaround which I think is worth while a try.
So let's have a try!
For anyone having a similar problem I attach two sample images which I exported
a) with the built-in export feature of Aperture (3.2)
b) with BorderFX (1.5.3) and the settings you recommended
Please be sure to click on the respective images as the previews look horrible to me at first sight!
a) Aperture Export (resize to 600 px height)
b) BorderFX export (resize to 600 px height, Edge Sharpen: Intensity: 0.5, Radius 1.00)
The image size allowed to upload here is quit limited, but I think the difference can be noticed. Maybe the sharpening in b) is already overdone but the comparison shall only serve as a first shot.
If somebody from the Apple Aperture team comes across this thread:
Maybe we can have a "sharpen on export setting" right within Aperture one day?
This is what e.g. Bibble offers in this respect:
In this case post processing is similar to an unsharpen mask filter setting.
I edited my message after I have seen the artifacts appearing in the preview images.

Is there a way to insert AFDs into a file upon export?

I don't *think* this is possible, but I wanted to get confirmation. Can Premiere insert an AFD flag to a file upon export?

AFD = Active Format Description. A flag contained in either a file's metadata or VANC that tells a receiver/IRD/set-top-box how to display an image. For example, an HD file/stream may contain an AFD flag for 16:9 Letterbox, so if the file/stream is downconverted the receiver/IRD/set-top box will display the SD version letterboxed, as opposed to center cut, anamorphic, etc.
I know there are a lot of hardware items that can insert AFDs (AJA FS1, FS2, etc) and dedicated transcoders (FlipFactory, Carbon Coder, Elemental) but it would seem like this is something an editor could do as well. Maybe not, but I'd like to know for certain...

How to keep photo files in order upon export?

My wife has imported two sets of files from two different cameras into iPhoto. Due to date/time stamping errors in the cameras these files did not import in the order she hoped. Consequently she created an Album and renamed and reordered the .jpg files, and all looked good. However, she would now like to export these files into a folder, with each file retaining its current order/place, and burn this to a flash drive. The end product is to be a Powerpoint presentation on a PC which will be developed by a friend. The problem is that upon export of the .jpgs into a desktop folder, the order of the files in the album is not retained. I suspect that the original metadata is taking over. Is there a way that she can export these in the order she has in the album? Thank you.

Here's one (of several) way(s) to do what you want:
Make an Album of the photos, then drag the pics into your preferred order.
Then Photos Menu: Batch Change -> Set Title to Text "John's Birthday", for instance, and tick the box to append a number to each Photo. Now your photos are titled 'John's Birthday 001, John's Birthday 002 ... etc'
Then File -> Export and in the Export dialogue set the Filename to "Use Title"
Sort on Filename in the FInder and you end up with a folder full of images in the same order as the Album in iPhoto.

Has anyone seen this? All by "c's" in a font are "blocks" upon export!

It was a fairly short (test) project. Upon export, every "c" in my text was "blocked." What gives?

Nope. It's Helvetica, factory-installed FCPX. (Not 3rd party.) Never had the problem before. Doesn't happen with other fonts. I re-exported ("shared") and the blocks disappeared.
Then... it showed up again intermittently. Trashed prefs. Yep. It's a genuine bug, even if it's one-of-a-kind that is particular to my system, at this moment.
I'm not terribly worried. But, I'll be interested to see if it replicates itself inside other machines running 10.0.8. Hopefully folks will, literally, keep us "posted."

Slideshow creates massive white borders upon export, but doesn't show prior to export

Slideshow module creates massive white space / borders upon export, despite not showing any in the module. You can see what it exports here: http://i.imgur.com/V71NpDH.png, and what the module shows here: http://i.imgur.com/uegXyiW.jpg
Any ideas? This is driving me up the wall. Images are sized properly for the slideshow size (1080P). Guides are set to 0px.
Apple Retina MBP, all software is updated.

Try using a different graphics type for your logo. Some don't translate well to Word. I used to know which ones were compatible but that was long ago and the list may have changed.
Jerry

Audio drops and cracks and odd sounds upon export...

working on CS4, on my mac powerbook.
upon exporting the audio has issues it doesn't in the project editing/CS4.
I've used crossfades, exponential fades to be specific... and even when I delete them, I have issues with clips I've never used them on.
the issue is the audio at the start of some of the clips drops low and then, after a second or two rises to the level it was set at.
I thought I was finished and only want to out put this cut to watch, make changes and be finished... I could really use some help on this... ugh.

well, I export it thru Premiere Pro CS4 and cs4 sends it to Adobe Media Encoder CS4.
I've found if I delete the fades and do it manually it seems to fix the issue... and the crackaling seems to be from the audio level hitting the red.
I'm still playing with the issue and have yet to export the entire document so I'm not sure my work arounds will work.
I'm still puzzled as this has NEVER happened before and I've used the same footage for smaller projects.

Audio dropping upon export

Perhaps there is a relevant thread covering this topic...
Audio is dropping out upon export to QuickTime for iDVD..
This is a 41-minute production with lots of key frames. Can't figure out a pattern to what gets dropped, but two attempts have the same audio missing . . . and it's clearly on the FCE timeline (version 2.0.3).
The timelline, BTW, is composed of four sequences.
Any ideas?

Tom:
Thanks for responding.
Yes, I mixdown each nested sequence. Strangely, however, even after doing so one of the nested sequences -- when strung together -- indicated some unrendered areas. I then rendered again.
Also interesting that exporting the individual sequences directly works fine -- no dropped audio. This, I believe, will enable me to work around this problem by using sequential files in DVD Studio Pro 2, instead of iDVD. But that's a lot of work.
Appreciate any other ideas or thoughtful suggesions. Thanks very much.
TD

Sharpening upon jpeg export

I'm surprised that Aperture does not allow sharpening of jpeg output. Sharpening the master before reduction is not the same. All experienced image makers know that sharpening needs to be applied after resizing. I don't want to sharpen my master. I always sharpen for output (I've always used photoshop). How could Apple leave this feature out?

My understanding was that nothing actually happened to the files ("nondestructive") until they were exported...at which time the adjustments were applied. You were simply seeing a preview of the adjustments.
I'm not a programmer so I could be completely wrong and if so, I completely agree that the sharpening should be applied as the final step.

Image hyperlinks are lost upon export to HTML

Hi,
I have many documents I need to convert to HTML. I need the images in the documents to be links. This has worked fine, according to normal procedures if the images are png, jpg, or gifs. However, most of my images are not those formats. So if I have an eps, pdf, and tiff in my document, upon html export, there is no hyperlink. That is, the <a href></a> tags are not in the HTML at all. But if I convert the images to png, jpeg, or gifs, put them in my document, then choose that file format for conversion, the links work fine.
I want to say there is an issue with the link tags upon file conversion. It could be something else, but I am not sure why it works for certain file formats and not others. I figured ID would keep the association with the hyperling after converting an image from say and eps to jpg. If anyone knows what if going on, that would be most helpful, or if anyone knew of a good way to keep hyperlinks for images after exporting to HTML, I would greatly appreciate it.
(I can obviously add the link tags myself in the HTML, or convert the images myself and put them in the docs, but I have many documents and would like some automated way.)
Thanks for the help!

Might help if you told us what version of InDesign you're using.

Final Cut Pro "improves" my exposure upon export.

I'm using Final Cut Pro 6. I export my entire timeline as a series of stills, which I batch process in Photoshop to apply specific curves. Then I reimport the stills into a timeline.
When I export the timeline, Final Cut takes it upon itself to change the exposure. Is there a way to override this extremely helpful feature?

Thanks for the tip. It didn't help, though.
Interestingly, when I open the exported clip in Final Cut, it looks better than when I open it in QuickTime. Which seems to indicate that the problem is actually in getting the two Apple products to agree on how to display something on an Apple monitor.
Kind of frustrating.

Colour changing upon export problem.

Hi.
I'm working on a game at the moment, and I'm running into a problem. I was testing the vector files that I export of the art I made, and upon re-importation to flash the colours have changed significantly. Then, when the game is running in a browser, it looks different again. It even looks different between different browsers. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in Advance.

Read this:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/quickstart/color_correction_as3/

Aperture seems to ignore edge sharpening on export

I like this edge sharpening tool in Aperture.
However when I export a picture the export process seems to simply ignore my edge sharpening I made. This is even true when I use the "edit with ..." menu.
Edge sharpening seems also be ignored while printing pictures.
I must say that edge sharpening is quit useless if I can't see the effect in exported or printed versions

jonesmc wrote:
When you're exporting, are you choosing to export "Version"? Otherwise, you're just exporting the original.
I export Versions of corse.
I also think that this is a bug - and a very important one.

TOC. Insert page. TOC contents is on page 1. Upon export it is last page ??

Hi again,
I am using a set of tutorials that outline how to create my ePub TOC.
I used this method successfully for my last ebook.
This time, I am subdividing my TOC.
The TOC links are NOT Chronologically based by the chapter sequence
but based upon a Subject.
A fictional TOC example follows.
Locations
    Alaska
    Hawaii
    California
    Maine
Time periods
    1700s
    1800s
    1900s
    2000s
PROBLEM.
I needed to add or rather insert a page at the very beginning of my document (page 2) so that I could physically type in the TOC Contents as above.
Layout > pages > insert pages > insert after page 2.
When I export this....
The TOC Contents is the very last page of the ePub.
But in my inDesign Document it is on page 1.
QUESTION 1.
Can someone explain this please ?
Thanks again.
I have the Indesign 800+ page PDF but there is not anything on TOC.
Thanks again.

It probably has something to do with how your text boxes are connected in InDesign. You need to put the table of contents in the "flow" of the book.

Aliasing font/titles upon export from FCP and projecting with NTSC system

My opening credits are in geneva, size 25pt. I have a transparent background so I can super them into Final Cut Pro. In FCP some of them are over images, some are not (opening credits for example. They import fine, I've rendered FCP, exported it into mp4, then into a DVD program. Upon watching in a large room, the smaller fonts (especially) waver, have rainbows, and are not stable. I hear this is called aliasing? How to prevent? Should I put the titled over slug in FCP? Should I have 10% opacity on my background? Add a shadow? Recently I've tried grey font instead of white...no luck. On an NTSC monitor, I get the same thing. Thanks for help on this one. Jen Mac

You can try a few things.
Use the 3-way color corrector in FCP to bring the white levels under 90%.
If all your text is on the same horizontal plane make sure it's on an even number
Add a .25 blur to the graphics
use the de-interlace filter

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