sharpening workflow

[hchow]

This article has been mentioned elsewhere on the forums with regards to sharpening after uprezzing to 20% over the final size and then downrezzing using bicubic sharpener to the final output size. Is there any merit to this workflow?
http://www.outbackphoto.com/workflow/wf_60/essay.html#filter

[Bruce Fraser]

If you don't know how to sharpen properly, I guess it might buy you something, but it seems goofy to me...

[Jeff Schewe]

No. . .there is no real benefit other than producing more work and multiple resamplings. . .which is, to be honest pretty goofy.

Yes, there is indeed a benfit to uprezing digital capture equal to or larger than the maximum print size you would ever need and do the processing, retouching and image manipulation and sharpening (creative stage) at this largest needed size. This would be your archival image. Yes, you would need to downsample to other image sizes if smaller than your archival image. Yes, Bicubic Sharper would be useful for that. But, you would STILL need to do final media and resolution specific output sharpening specific to that print size.

Just because somebody posts something to a web site does not make it gospel-or even make it right. This article is a prime example of that. . .Uwe should know better. . .but there's a lot of only "kinda right" stuff on a variety of web sites. . .choose who you decide to read and belive very carefully.