In general, what numbers do you all use for sharpening portraits?

There is no perfect answer that fits all situations.  Cameras and setting vary.

I prefer High Pass Filter Sharpening.  Google it. 

Thanks, I'll check it out.

 I use Kevin Kubota's Magic Sharpen action (I think that's what it's called). It's truly magical!!

 Basically it depends your photographs... but normally for 750x 525   

photoshop >> unsharp mask >> amt 100%, radius 0.8, thersold 2

this gives you a decent result for your image. I recommand this.

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 Basically it depends your photographs... but normally for 750x 525   

 

photoshop >> unsharp mask >> amt 100%, radius 0.8, thersold 2

 

this gives you a decent result for your image. I recommand this.

That is a very safe amount of sharpening... Of course for portraits you dont want to be overly sharp.

However i sometimes boost the radius to 1.5 or 2

Best I have found.  Their two plus the fade trick. Look in index here. http://www.lonestardigital.com/

a pretty good all purpose setting is

Amount: 85%

Radius: 1

Threshod: 4

This is pretty good for protraits too. 

If you're sharpening for the web try Amount: 400%, Radius: 0.3, and threshold: 0. 

I LOVE the high pass filtering now for sharpening.  Thanks Greg for getting me on that one!

JessE.:

I LOVE the high pass filtering now for sharpening.  Thanks Greg for getting me on that one!

I'm glad you like it.  It's all I use for important work. 

I love high pass, but I'm not the greatest at it.  It somewhat salvaged a photo I got of my daughter, I took much better ones than this but it was the only one where I caught a glimpse of a smile, and those are few and far between - I was unprepared at the moment and it was out of focus.  I wanted to at least get a decent print, not anything too big - I actually ended up making an 8x10 of it that I don't think looks awful, but I did notice that the high pass seemed to add "noise" to it and I am a photoshop idiot and wasn't sure where to go after that, or how to fix the noise.  Any tips for the future or what I could have done differently with it (besides "take focused pictures, silly") would be appreciated.

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