Post proccessing and sharpening

[tbfoto]

I shoot a 20D with my 28-135 IS lens most of the time. I just got back from vacation where I shot about 400 shots. I find that most all the time my shots need to have the contrast bumped up and then I apply some unsharp mask. It takes forever to go through 400 shots and do this for each shot. I know that I need to learn how to use photoshop better. I think I can set this up as an action and do the whole batch. I've never learned how to do that yet but this experience has told me that I must learn.

My question is for those of you that apply USM to your shots. If I set this up as an action then they will all have the same amount of USM ..right? Is this the way it should be done? So how much USM do you apply?

I have so much to learn.

Tom

[AjP]

as I always shoot RAW, that mean I do some tunning before I convert to JPG ot TIFF and sometimes I use photoshop smart sharpen... the amount really depends on images

[tbfoto]

Sorry I posted this in the wrong place. How do I move it to the proper place now? (postproccessing and printing)


Tom