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I agree with Eric that you should sharpen last
The last comment I would make is why bother with the jpg file? At least if you move to Lightroom, you just don't need it.
Tom
I actually only just started using the NIK raw presharpener this past summer after someone running a seminar at a local camera shop advocated its use.
At the time I was skeptical of his advice, so did some digging around on the web and found this:
http://www.ppmag.com/web-exclusives/2009/01/review-nik-sharpener-pro-30.html
The consensus of those who study sharpening is that a two-step sharpening process with both input sharpening and device-specific output sharpening yields the optimally sharpened image. Digital capture inherently has softness due to the low-pass filter that's typically used to fight moir©. Reversing this loss of sharpness in the capture process is one of the first tasks to perform in image processing, and Sharpener Pro 3.0 offers a RAW Presharpener to do just that. Note that this is intended for use on RAW images that have not been sharpened in-camera or with a RAW converter. JPEG images already have some sharpening applied, so they do not require this step. This input sharpening process is perfect for actions and/or batch processing, and can be easily incorporated into your workflow without adversely affecting processing time.
Also, don't most raw converters do some initial pre-sharpening upon importation ? I know aperture does, you have to manually go in and disable this feature if you do not want it.
As to why I bother with the in camera JPEG, if after importing the JPEG looks satisfactory I go with that and don't bother with RAW processing, but that is only about 10% of the time.
While the lightroom workflow described sounds appealing, I think at this point I am too entrenched in Aperture as a DAM to switch to anything else. I have thousands of photos across multiple aperture libraries at the moment.
As for the other raw converters, I'll have to play around with them and see what I think. Capture one sounds good, but photo ninja is out. That one just does not run that well on my macbookpro.
Thanks for the welcome also..I was actually a member on the old forum (nikond1.net i think it was)..