Hi Paul, I’ve got it now:

http://www.jid.me.uk/workflow/Workflow2/sharp.html

Not sure what to make of it, I assumed that copying an experienced photographer would help me, but maybe I’m just jumping ahead of myself?

Oh and by the way, just saw your MAN pics on here, they are stunning Paul!

Thankyou very much, Dan! Very much appreciated. 🙂

The thing about tutorials is that they’re purely a guide. Jid Webb’s a very, very good and experienced photographer, but simply copying his methods for every photo won’t necessarily guarantee you good results. You have to approach every individual photograph as a unique image and edit each according to what it actually needs. Sometimes I need to apply a little more USM to a re-sized JPEG even though most of my sharpening is done in RAW. Sometimes they’re fine straight from RAW and don’t need to be touched.

Also, there are other ways to achieve similar results. In Jid’s larger workflow method, he mentions sharpening at 50% with a radius of 0.4, but if I’m editing a JPEG (that wasn’t originally shot in RAW) I generally prefer the look of 100% with a radius of 0.3. Both are correct and work well, it’s just that I have a preference for one over the other.

Jid’s guide is a very good one and you won’t find many better, but try playing with the settings he’s using. You might find changing a few values works better for you and it will give you a good unserstanding of how the smaller details of things like sharpening actually affect how your image looks.

Hope that helps, and thanks again for your kind words. 🙂

Paul