Hi, again....

Turns out it was user error. I was supposed to export the variant, which contained all my modifications. Instead I was exporting an unaltered version, which of course didn't look like what I had on the screen.

Sorry I wasted your time, and I did appreciate the replies.

I've attached the modified file in case someone was interested.

Thanks, again.

John

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Hi there, everyone...

First time posting, so be gentle please :)

I'm just starting out in photography, and I was doing some experimenting with sharpening RAW files in Luminar (which I own), Lr (trial version) and Capture One (trial version).

I had taken some photos of one of my scale models (which is why I started becoming interested in photography), and I was playing around with the sharpening tools in each of the above software tools. I'm certainly no expert, but the tools were similar enough that I think I was doing a fair comparison between them using the same initial image. At the end of the day, I was most happy with the results I got with Capture One. Not that the others were bad, but the final image seemed just a little crisper with that tool. I then proceeded to export that image to JPEG using highest quality. When I open that exported JPEG, it's noticeably softer than the final image I had in the app. Is there something I am missing?

Any advice or comments/suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks.