The Enthusiast's Guide to Lightroom

22. THE LOWDOWN ON DETAIL AND NOISE REDUCTION

IN THE DETAIL panel you will see that the Sharpening section has four sliders: Amount, Radius, Detail, and Masking. Above the Sharpening area there is a box that shows you a 100 percent view of everything in the picture. I don’t like using this because it’s not really a good way to see how much sharpness is being applied to the picture.

Instead, I like to click on the main picture in the center workspace to zoom in to 100 percent (Figure 22.1). You can then click and hold on the picture and move it around to see how sharpness is going to be applied to a specific area. Okay, now that we’ve covered that, ...