Slightly off topic, about local adjustments (sharpening/noise removal)


Lightroom can do local sharpening via the adjustment brush (which is still slow and tedious if you ask me). NIK Software makes a sharpening plugin (as well as a noise removal one) that has VERY clever ways of doing local adjustments via handles you place in the image. It works very intuitive after you just read the manual for a few minutes. I tried their demo and was amazed by the software and how much better it handles sharpening and noise removal than Photoshop's own algorhythms (or those of Lightroom).