The K3 III in the comparison tool

Hello flektogon

flektogon wrote:

Well, 15 min walking to the Metro store was enough to cool my head off . OK. everything what I (and few others ) wrote, is just BS! It is irrelevant what parameters any given photo editor uses to open the raw file. Once you see the bitmap image, this is your starting point (base level) for any further modifications. You apply this and that modification, again it is irrelevant to know it (or save those numbers, like sharpening of 45). What counts is, how your modified bitmap image looks. If you are happy with what you see, just save it! Whether you save it as a TIFF or JPEG (except as a replacement of your original raw file), it doesn't matter. Whenever you open it again, and regardless on which editor/viewer you use, you will see again the same image.

So, I think that the entire discussion here was, well a good exercise with (our aging) brains .

My thread is not about what we can do with the RAW file we did downloaded. We can of cause as you wrote use our own setting for sharpness for it. My thread was about default setting:

in my posted pictures you can see at the right side: History

It show the Import: That mean, I did not do any own PP on this pictures, I only made the JPG's from the Imported files.

As I wrote, do to the DNG file I did downloaded from DP, the embedded XMP file set my LR to a sharpness of 0, but again, this is now not the default setting of LR now.

For the second picture I deleted the embedded XMP file, and here my LR use now it's normal default setting and this show the second JPG I did posted.

ACR and LR are both from Adobe. LR is based on ACR.

That's why I ask: use ACR a sharpness of 0 for it's default or like my LR a 25 ?

The problem now is: ACR user, who download this file and open it in their ACR, get via the embedded XMP there ACR defaults overwritten as in my LR, therefore this user must set their ACR back to default settings. and if than the sharpness is still 0 .... I would know that ACR use an other default setting as my LR.

best regards. KPM2