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[Mike Buckley]

Thanks for pointing that detail out to all of us, Greg.

[Brownbear]

Thank you Grahame, Mike and Greg for sharing extra info about sharpening.

The tutorials I viewed were great at showing that sharpening is a subjective thing that can destroy a photo if over done, and demonstrated that the amount of sharpening needed depended on the subject and the amount of detail in the photo.. that one needs to view at 100% and sharpen to a point where it starts to look processed and then pull back... LR also has a neat little button where one can toggle back and forth to see the before and after.

Grahame I will read the tutorials on sharpening here a few more times.

Greg, yes that is a key difference that I forgot about. Thank you.

[Mike Buckley]

LR also has a neat little button where one can toggle back and forth to see the before and after.

Maybe I'm blind but I can't find that. Please describe its location.

[jprzybyla]

Maybe I'm blind but I can't find that. Please describe its location.

Hello Mike, it is a little square looking box on the left hand side in all of the panels except for the Basic Panel. In some it is at the top left, others the bottom left.

[Brownbear]

Hi Mike,

It is in the detail panel.. A small square on the left hand side. Click the top half for sharpened and the bottom half for unsharpened, or vice versa

Maybe I'm blind but I can't find that. Please describe its location.

[Mike Buckley]

Got it! Thanks!

[Dave Humphries]

LR also has a neat little button where one can toggle back and forth to see the before and after.

Can you also toggle it (Preview) on and off with "P" key in LR? (you can in ACR)

[Brownbear]

Hi Dave,

I don't think so.. When I tried hitting P it picked the photo as a selection. But if anyone will know it will be Joe, and he can correct me.

Can you also toggle it (Preview) on and off with "P" key in LR? (you can in ACR)

[jprzybyla]

Hello Christina and Dave, to see the before and after when in the Develop Module in Lightroom look to the lower left corner of the screen. There is a box made up of two boxes marked X and Y, that is the before and after. Use it to see the image as imported (X) and with all the corrections applied (Y). The box to the left of the X and Y will take you back to the full image with corrections applied.

[Mike Buckley]

Joe,

I wonder if your helpful post is based on flawed memory (the only kind of memory that I have) or if there is some setting that I've not yet come upon. The two boxes are Y and Y on my system, not X and Y.

Thank you to Christina for letting us hijack her thread.

[jprzybyla]

Joe,

I wonder if your helpful post is based on flawed memory (the only kind of memory that I have) or if there is some setting that I've not yet come upon. The two boxes are Y and Y on my system, not X and Y.

Thank you to Christina for letting us hijack her thread.

Hi Mike, I just checked... X and Y in my Lightroom 5.

[Brownbear]

Hi Mike,

In LR 4, it is y and y, and if you click on the little arrow beside the Ys you can see the image before and after vertically, horizontally, top and bottom etc.

I adore it when people hijack my threads because I always learn something new.

Joe,

I wonder if your helpful post is based on flawed memory (the only kind of memory that I have) or if there is some setting that I've not yet come upon. The two boxes are Y and Y on my system, not X and Y.

Thank you to Christina for letting us hijack her thread.

[Mike Buckley]

I'm using version 5 yet my system displays it as Christina describes her version 4. There must be something else that affects that part of the display that's preventing the X and Y that Joe describes in his version 5.