I just use DPP, so i don't have the ability to selectively sharpen or fiter, but that would be really cool. A reason to pay for some software.


I sharpen on the RAW tab to maximize image detail usually not past 2 or 3, but sometimes up to 5, but back off just before I get the single pixel crunch. I may sharpen in the RGB tab if I think it could use some sharpness pop. If the image has some noise I want to deal with, or I just want a little bit of general smoothing, I'll apply luma and chorma filtering in the third tab, as best addresses the issue, keeping an eye on the detail I just sharpened to see how much it softens it. If the softening is too much, I go back and forth either increasing the sharpening or decreasing the filtering, until I feel that I've got a good balance.


The way you guys talk, you make me want to pull my calibrated monitor out, buy Photoshop and/or other stuff, and take a class! OTOH, I'm lazy []