Digital BW, The Print

Myron,

did you look at the video posted by Bill? It addresses exactly that 
issue. The idea is to use the same module for creative and for output 
sharpening. When you do the creative sharpening though, you simply put 
the "Output Sharpening Strength"-slider to zero. Thus you can work with 
the three sliders "Structure", "Local Contrast" and "Focus" and with 
control points in a creative way. Once done, exit Nik's software to save 
the generic document. In the next step and on a new layer you will then 
do the output sharpening according to your output device.

Also very interesting is the suggestion to put all Nik-sharpening-layers 
in luminosity rather than normal mode, thus avoiding the color shifts 
that sometimes come along with sharpening.

Louis


On 08/09/2013 18:45, MyronG wrote:
> It is not obvious how the output sharpening and creative sharpening 
> interact with each other. Is there a way to disable the output 
> sharpening while retaining the creative stage? I can certainly imagine 
> using control points and "creative" effects to produce the basic image 
> I want without having a *specific* output in mind. It would be nice to 
> be able to save all of this sharpening to a kind of master final 
> version which would then be out-put sharpened according needs of the 
> moment.