Elements 6 or CS4 Sharpening Help

I need some input for Elements 6 or CS4 users. I have attached an image straight out of the camera. How would you evaluate the sharpness and how much would you apply in the above pp programs? I feel the sharpness is not bad out of the camera but I want to make sure I am in the ballpark on sharpening when I do it. Thanks in advance.

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I'd evaluate sharpness at 100%...

Maybe apply USM of something like 300%, 0.3, 0 to 4

Obviously depends on your "in camera" (or raw converter) sharpening settings as well.

Sharpening also depends on how the finished image will be viewed. To prepare an image for printing on a soft matte paper, sharpening should be extreme, while for viewing on screen it needs to be done much more gently.

Thanks, I am finding that I may have not been using as much sharpening as I could have used. I am just trying to get a general rule of thumb on how much to apply to overcome the AA filter in the camera.

Canon offer suggestions for that somewhere. Different cameras need different settings. But I always treat sharpening at a bare minimum as a three stage process. The first is a fairly gentle broadbrush sharpen to correct the softening caused by the lowpass filter you mention. Then I might do some "creative" sharpening during post processing and save the finished image like that. Finally, when I print, I apply a further sharpen based on the size of the print and the paper I intend to use.

My own rule of thumb for printing on Epson Premium Glossy paper at 360ppi is to sharpen until the image looks "crunchy" on screen at 100%. By crunchy I mean the sharpening should be obvious, with jaggies clearly visible. For Hahnemuhles Torchon (a very soft textured matte paper) I go a lot farther.

Thanks for the information, I appreciate it.