Reading the posts above, and now that I'm learning to use NikSharpen, I see that with the ability to selectively sharpen comes a whole new factor to contemplate when editing: what areas of an image would benefit from more sharpening, and by how much? "Automatic knee-jerk" global sharpening now seems to me to be a bit heavy-handed in many applications. Offhand, I would tend to give the eyes and mouth (in portraits) more sharpening. In nature images, I think I'd use sharpening and blurring to guide the viewer's eyes to the parts of the image I'd want to emphasize. Thoughts, reactions?

Cheers,

Leonard