So I just took some amazing (IMHO
) event photos, and the family loved the shots online. They now want a CD of high-res so they could make their own prints. I'm fine with this as I offered it to them, but now for my question - For the web shots, I used AbsoluteSharpeningWeb to downsize and sharpen them to 600 pixels wide. I shoot RAW and do ALL my editing in ACR, so the only sharpening they get is during the web conversion. I've read that you should sharpen for print based on output size, but what if I don't know what size they want? Should I just run the sharpening action (from ASW) on the original image size (~3000x2000) and keep the sharpening to normal or low? (I use strong for the web stuff). When I shot JPG, I would just upload the original JPG (either from the camera or after some basic Picassa editing) to Costco and any print size would come out great (and sharp) because the JPGs were sharpened in camera. But I'm afraid if I just send the "as-is" ACR-converted JPG, they'll come out soft. And I'm afraid if I sharpen the "original" size, smaller 4x6 prints would look awful....
Thoughts?