PP order

Can you guys just give me a run down on the way you would process a RAW image from the Camera into PS

ie exposure adjust
USM
Contrast change,
size it first or last?

General quick list that is average PP

Thanks

Size and crop first, so that you're working on the correct size.
Any adjustments.
Sharpen for the purpose (i.e print or web)

Sharpening always comes last - unless you're using a multi-stage sharpening workflow. Sharpening is specific to output device and image size - hence it being the last step. It's also destructive.

I tend to leave cropping late in many cases, as if I take a file into Photoshop, I may well defer the choice of final size, which means the choice of final aspect ratio. I tend to store crops in my Photoshop files using paths created with the Rectangle tool; I've described the method here.

These days, I do as much as I can in Adobe Camera Raw - not least because I work primarily in Lightroom. I only use Photoshop when I need to. If I do work in Photoshop I do so in as non-destructive a fashion as possible (much of this is CS3 specific) - so I open Camera Raw files as Smart Objects, use Adjustment Layers, Smart Filters and layer masks, and I dodge and burn by painting on a 50% grey layer in Overlay blending mode.

David

Check out this tutorial:

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=95468

Many Thanks a good read