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sirentim
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June 29, 2020
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RAW photo importing differently to photoshop

  • June 29, 2020
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Hey... so I recently re-open a jpeg I'd exported of an old photo and liked it, but wanted to straighten it up. 

I exported the orginall RAW to photoshop, with the same settings automatically applied. 

 

Can anyone tell me why it's now so soft? I haven't changed any settings? 

Left is the RAW import now, right is the old JPG saved file. Massive discrepancy. 

 

Using latest version of photoshop. 

Cheers! 

 

 

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D Fosse
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D FosseCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 29, 2020

First of all, you need to compare at 100%, one image pixel to one screen pixel. You always need to judge sharpness and noise at 100%. At any other zoom ratio, the onscreen image is resampled, and resampling algorithms vary between applications. Some may even apply extra sharpening on their own.

 

Second, re-examine your sharpening settings in ACR. Depending on how old this image is, lots of things may have happened in ACR since then. There's nothing automatic in ACR, you have to push the sliders.

 

Finally, Export has its own settings for output sharpening. In ACR, you'll find this in the workflow options.

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sirentimAuthor
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July 9, 2020

Hey...

 

Yea that all makes sense but both of those images used the exact same settings, just one was fair less sharp in the background. 😕😕 

D Fosse
Community Expert
D FosseCommunity Expert
Community Expert
July 9, 2020

Then you need to re-examine your sharpening settings. If the first version is very old, the whole sharpening algorithm may have changed in ACR, and all settings zeroed.

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