I just got my two first rolls back form developing and I've been thinking on were I stand when it comes to fixing the photos in Photoshop. Remove dust and such is pretty obvious. Shapening too, since it's the scanner that makes the sharpness basically, if you don't have shit optics.

But when it comes to regular stuff that you would do to digital. Curves, levels, maybe color balance. I've just re sized them and removed some dust for now. Not even sharpened them.

So were do you guys stand on this?

eh, i'll use curves to shape up my images, i usually scan them super flat in the first place, so i have a working file, not a final file. usually dust removal, curves, and unsharp.

I do mostly the same. I don't mess with the initial scan so I do a little curve. Sometimes I have to adjust color.

i've been finding i curves doesn't help much, i prefer levels with scans
slight tweak is all i can do

i was told to sharpin them, and i guess i got carried away because someone told me they look over sharpened
anyone have any good sharpening settings that i can go off (and tweak slightly from picture to picture) for 120 scans

lately ive been getting my stuff scanned at the lab because their scanners are leagues beyond mine, so normally i bring it into PS and than clean up dust and scratches and just make sure levels are good, thats about it. maybe work the shadows a bit.

Anything goes. It is all about the final image, not the process for me. Also do not forget that every imgainable manipulation has been done way back in prehistoric film beginnings, retouch ups, dodge and burn, sort of HDR, sharpening, colouring, so nothing new when you use a different tool.

I scan my film into photoshop with just a usm set in the scanning software. Then I crop it, resize, and do a little more usm. I also get rid of dust and scratches with the spot healing brush. Other than that, I rarely touch levels or curves or anything like that. If there's a weird tint to a photo then I'll try to fix that in levels.