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davidl35781049
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September 21, 2026
Question

Would love to zoom into two images and have sharpness comparison tool for area.

  • September 21, 2026
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Culling thousands of images is very time consuming in wildlife photography.  I am requesting three tools to easier determine sharpness. 1) this one is obvious, show the focus point in Adobe Lightroom. Often I want to prioritize a small section of the image such as a bird’s eye or face, if the focus point is not there, it is easy to reject.  2) Lightroom could easily train an AI model to check edge complexity within a specified area and tell me which is the sharpest between two or more images. Ideally, I could specify a different area for each image, but I could just crop them if need be. 3) I could follow up with an adjustable edge detection tool for two images, side by side, so I can see which has the strongest edges. As an aside, I have vitrious separation causing annoying floaters, making it very difficult for me to compere details in two images, but I can assure you that every wildlife photographer would love this. It would also be applicable to almost any genre of photography if I can define the area of interest.  I could, for instance define a vertical section of landscape images and easily determine which aperture I took has the best tradeoff between the desired depth of field and sharpness w.r.t the lens sweet spot.