Sharpening practices

[seanharding]

Just curious what others are doing for sharpening. Typically I'm doing some editing in Lightroom and/or Photoshop after I export from NegPy. Then I'll often export from Lightroom at a few different sizes depending on what I'm doing, so I like to apply sharpening at that step. So my inclination is to just disable NegPy's sharpening completely and do it as the final step before export. I don't usually like the results when I do multiple round of sharpening. But I do wonder if there's any special magic in NegPy's sharpening step that I'm missing out on by not using it.

[kjm5000]

My guess is no, there's nothing you're missing out on. Many inversion software's have sharpening automatically enabled to compensate for some scans fuzziness, especially flatbed. I personally don't like how most any sharpening looks on photos, digital or film. To me it adds a certain look to the contrast and details that I find unpleasing.

[marcinz606]

there is nothing really "magic" those are the same, well documented sharpening algorithms found everywhere