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For input uprezzing, ACR may be the best place to start, as you can move the imported raw file to Photoshop at higher than native resolutions if you choose.
Dan
RustyBug wrote:
+1 @ Dan,
LR has become much more useful from its origins as Adobe seems to keep bringing more of the PS power into it with successive iterations.
Like those who state, I can do 90% of what I need in LR, going only to PS for special purposes. I'm the reciprocal @ I can do 90% of what I need in PS, only going to LR for special purposes (i.e.large volume production culling, etc.)
Much of my work is very "one off", so I stay in PS for most things (99.9%). Like Dan, it is the workflow that I "think" in terms of. There was a time that PS was foreign to me, then the time that LR & PS were about even. Now, my thought process is distinctly PS and LR is essentially foreign.
As to the aspect of uprezzing ... when I feel that I'm going to need to uprezz a file for a large print (variably defined / in context with starting pixels, i.e. heavy crop), I uprezz the file BEFORE I process it. That might put a heavier load on the PC and slow down the editing speed a bit, but if you are talking about an image from a 14MP camera with a heavy crop ... that is quite a diff from a 36MP image with no crop being uprezzed to a given size (say 20x30 vs. something in the 60" or larger range).
I'm really not familiar with LR for input uprezzing (noting it @ available for output), but I'd be inclined to uprezz my file in PS (if LR has no option for pre-processing uprezz), then process in LR if I were LR oriented, so I'd still be doing my processing on the properly sized file, where I can see the effects first rather than leaving it to the algorithm. I guess that would essentially be "input" uprezzing vs. "output" uprezzing.
For a full frame file from the 5D3 to a 20x30 ... that's not a humongous amount of uprezzing needed, so the diff @ input / output or LR / PS might be nominal these days for most applications. You can also do some 8X10 crop test shots at diff methods to evaluate your uprezz process @ in/out & LR/PS to see how much diff it makes in your workflow....Show more →
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