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When cropping a RAW file is it better to use Super Resolution before or after doing the crop.
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I personally feel that it's better to crop first so that the enhancement can take place on the image that you want enlarged and enhanced.
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When the rubber meets the road, no difference. A crop is just a parametric (instruction or think of it as metadata) edit. Your preference.
What gets actually rendered out into say a TIFF, yes, the crop then takes place.
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When you use super resolution on a raw file, Lightroom will first apply 'enhance details'. Any cropping is irrelevant, because that is a non-destructive crop. The original raw file will be used regardless of that crop.
To avoid getting such a large file, you could first export a cropped TIFF, import it again and then use super resolution on that TIFF. In that case 'enhance details' won't be applied, so this may give a slightly worse result. I haven't tested that, however.
If the result is indeed worse, you could avoid that by using a two step approach: first use only 'enhance details' to create an enhanced DNG. Then apply the crop on that DNG and export a TIFF with that crop. Finally use super resolution on that cropped TIFF.
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Thank you