Sharpening

Finally forced myself to only shot RAW. Question: do you sharpen raw file or want until to you convert to jpig? Or do you do a little in both?

Good question, I do both but not sure if that the best way to sharpen.

I add a little capture sharpening when converting the RAW file and then do final sharpening as the last step before converting to jpeg for print/web.

It really depends more on your workflow and or preferences.
For me ... I open in Camera Raw and do this and then sharpen and finish in PS
and save as JPEG or Tiff - leaving the original RAW as unchanged.

I use DPP but only to transfer straight to Photoshop as a TIFF. From here I use a third party plug-in sharpener in 3 distinct stages, once as a "capture sharpen" immediately, then whatever sharpening I feel the image might need during post processing. Finally I do a "print" sharpen to suit whatever ppi LEVEL i'M using to print.

I don't apply any sharpening in raw primarily because I sometimes do heavy retouching after opening my RAW file, I want the sharpening to affect everything in my image equally.

On import from the card I use AUTOTUNE. It does a little bit of everything, exposure compensation if needed, clarity, color etc. Works well for me.

My normal workflow is to do all my processing in Raw. I'm not a portrait or studio shooter so don't go for "advanced" Photoshop tools. I don't often do HDR or "blending" -- I prefer to get all I can out of a Raw file, and I'm lazy and like to avoid the tiffs that get generated by working files in Photoshop. From Lightroom I'll Export photos to upload to the Web using the Screen Standard sharpening and I've been happy with the results.

My printing has historically been using my two photo printers, on up to 13x19 paper, and I've been happy to do that through Lightroom -- I haven't gone through Photoshop to print in a long time. And, I've been happy with the Lightroom "Standard" output sharpening for printing.

If I decide to print larger than, say, 12x18 (or 13x19 "full bleed") then I'll look at more advanced "output sharpening" methods on a resized image, which would mean looking at a Photoshop action or some other method, but Lightroom also will do output sharpening for a resized/resampled photo, so I may not bother with Photoshop!

Just so you know: I am not a "stickler" for the "sharp look" in post-processing. I am picky when it comes to sharpness when it comes to detail, "input sharpness", but for the final output I'll do some tweaking to the Contrast and Clarity and such, try to give it some bit of "Pop", and I've occasionally applied some "selective Sharpening" using a local adjustment brush, and I'll use the Lightroom Sharpen tool as called for, but for my photos that seems to be all I need.