Chapter 8. Sharpening and noise reduction
How to make full use of the capture sharpening and noise reduction controls in the Detail panel
There are many reasons why it is necessary to presharpen an image. The process of converting the light information that hits the photosites on the sensor and subsequent digital data processing will result in an image with softer edge detail than would normally be considered desirable. It could be that the lens optics on your camera are not particularly sharp. Therefore, a little sharpening at the post-capture stage is usually necessary to produce an image that is sharp enough to look good on the screen, but without being overly sharpened. If a photograph is sharpened too much at this stage, you may end up with ...
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