Ok I need advice on my workflow

This is what I've been doing.

1. Get pics off of cam by using the usb transfer with eos utilities.

2. Take pics into Lightroom and pp in there.

3. Take finished product from Lightroom and send it to photoshop through the edit photo function.

4. In photoshop I do my selective sharpening first.

5. Next step is I resize the image by goin to resize image and I usually just type in a 1920X whatever.

6. Last step I save the image as a jpeg with the best quality possible.

My q is am I doin anything wrong in the order of things? should I resize the image first once in photoshop or am I doin things correctly.

What about my conversion to jpeg, is this the correct way to do it or is there a better way? I read about people using save for web but i've always just saved the image as in the format i want and chose the quality.

I don't know about "wrong" -- are you doing this for the Web only, or for clients or, ?

A consideration -- as to "I save the image as a jpeg with the best quality possible", if this is just for the Web then it's probably overkill. It's fine for printing, but a jpeg quality of, say, 8/80 will typically be just as good as 10/100.

Nothing wrong that I can see If it were me, I would edit the RAW's, batch process them so that they all automatically are made into JPEG's at whatever size you desire and then apply any sharpening they may need to the final JPEG's.

I do my sharpening as the last thing.

For the above purposes, is sharpening in Photoshop really going to be that much better than appropriate sharpening in LR?

The steps should be open in Photoshop, do processing, save. Then for each output size you resize then sharpen. Sharpening is always last.

As Tim says, when you are finished sharpening in PS, do nothing else but click 'save' then 'close' and the file will be brought back into Lightroom as a full size TIFF. You then have the versatility of exporting AND output sharpening depending on size and medium.

Thanks for the information guys.

you know, you can import directly from your camera through lightroom. It's what I've been doing with my 5d2 cause I'm short on a card-reader right now.

Pretty convenient, would reduce the steps too.

Also, I would make an action for resize and sharpening. Say you know you're going to be doing a bunch of 1920x or 1080x wide images (which are overkill for web size, i tend to stick to 900 on the short end, but even that tends to be too much), you could set it to sharpen using your preferred method, and then resize, and also export as jpg.

I have an action set up to do a resize and export, and then it just asks me where to save and what to name it.

That's a good point - I always import from the card into Lightroom, and do some preliminary culling during the import process. You can make import presets for naming and keywording if you often shoot similar subjects.

If you want to get really fancy, you can automate some of your processing upon import as well - such as applying noise reduction based on ISO.