p.1 #1 · Lightroom and CS3-Noise removal and sharpening
Any recommendations on prepping an image for CS3 from lightroom. I make most of my tweaks in Lightroom and try to avoid CS3, but for filtering out noise and sometimes for sharpening, I'll use CS3. So, any thoughts on what settings I should use for sharpening and noise removal in Lightroom. Should I set the noise sliders to 0 and let my preferred CS3 noise filter (neat image) take care of it all? Same kind of thing for sharpening? I suppose I could do a bunch through trial and error, but was looking for someone who has already done that experimentation.
p.1 #2 · Lightroom and CS3-Noise removal and sharpening
I find that if I want to work on noise in CS3 (using Noise Ninja) I will not do any noise reduction in LR and default sharpening settings unless the sharpening is really exaggerating the noise. Then I will reduce or zero out the sharpening as well. I think this method offers the best possibility to maintain as much detail as possible, while eliminating as much noise as I can.
p.1 #3 · Lightroom and CS3-Noise removal and sharpening
Just a matter of trying different combinations to see what works best. For band stuff, I usually just apply NR on the background, etc, and not on skin tones or faces, as it looks a bit fake. Selective Sharpening is also great. I will just sharpen-up the face and guitar for example and leave no sharpening on the BG.
