Via the Optics Module for your combo, PhotoLab understands how much sharpening is required.Įven better, you don’t even need to “ click to turn on the Lens Sharpness tool ” - if you’re using the “DxO Standard” auto-preset then this will be turned-ON for you, automatically … Or, if you’re using your own auto-Preset then you can include this as a standard setting.ĭo i actually have to bother touching the unsharp mask tool at all (which if i understand correctly is for use if there’s not a module available for that camera/lens combo)? Yes, amazingly(!) that’s all you need to do, Paul. So if all that being true can i just click to turn on the Lens Sharpness tool, leave it at default and the sharpening is just done? Do i actually have to bother touching the unsharp mask tool at all (which if i understand correctly is for use if there’s not a module available for that camera/lens combo)? So if all that being true can i just click to turn on the Lens Sharpness tool, leave it at default and the sharpening is just done? That seems too easy but the results look very good every time.

If i understand correctly i can just leave the DxO Lens Sharpness slider at its default position of zero which lets DxO decide how much sharpening is needed & where. Now, I’ve been using Lightroom for many years and the results the DxO Lens Sharpness tool gives is incredible, much better than the Lightroom sharpening tool which introduces artefacts and hugely antagonises the results from the noise reduction tool. The result should be a uniformly sharpened image across the image. It sharpens the areas more where the lens is softest and less where it’s sharpest. I understand through reading the online help file that the 1st steps to sharpening a Raw image is to use the Lens Sharpness tool which uses the info in the downloaded module to sharpen the image. Can i ask if i’m doing the sharpening to Raw files correctly.

Dxo lab 3