SD880 IS in-camera sharpening

I have a SD880 IS that I bought for times I don't want to haul my DSLR around, but I haven't been happy with the pictures. I don't have high expectations, but it seems the camera has a lot of sharpening applied to the images, which often creates really ugly artifacts. Is there a way to turn that off?

TIA...

Put it in P, then choose Custom Colors from the My Colors option. You can set contrast, sharpness, saturation and R,G & B saturation there (pp. 73 & 74 of your manual).

Its the only camera that I never felt the need to increase the sharpening.

I initially set Custom Color +1 on sharpness and found as you, too overprocessed.

I'm perfectly happy running P-->Default Color even.

I pretty much leave my S2 in "low sharpening" mode. Some people say that pictures properly sharpened for print appear over-sharpened on the screen, so that may be part of it, but I just hate the halo effect. You can't get rid of that once it's there, but you can always sharpen the picture later if it needs it.

Thanks for the responses! I must've fallen asleep before I got to page 73 of my manual...