Originally posted by K McCall
I'm all over those!
Funny, I hear 'overdose' as it can be easy sometimes to overdo these "adjustments"
For sharpness, I mostly leave it at Lightroom defaults. I also used to oversharpen. My favourite tool when I need good sharpening is Nik Sharpener, works very well for web sized pictures.
KierraElizabeth, if you use PSE, I'd suggest to use Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) that comes with it. If you shoot in raw you'll see the ACR dialog appearing but you can also set up PSE (not quite sure as I use mostly CS3) to use ACR for JPEG too. Check your documentation about that.
Once ACR is open you can do all the basic adjustments needed. The first things I do is to:
- check the WB or manipulate it to get some effects.
- adjust the exposure
- play with fill light and black as needed
Once you get used to ACR it's very easy to use Lightroom which is based on the same engine but adds Digital Asset Management and is faster to work with a lot of pictures than PSE.