General Re-Touch Guidelines that you use?

[tombothetominator]

Just curious what everybody's basic workflow is for retouching general photos (not necesarrily portraits) from their digicam?

Mine goes: levels correction, color correction, generally I up the color saturation by ~5, lens correction, and depending on the picture, a polarization-esque filter to help colors if they still aren't looking right.

So what do you do to those pics out of the digicam to make them 'pop'??

[Medley]

Convert monitor to printer color profile, Shadow/Highlight (if necessary), Noise reduction as needed, Convert to Lab mode, color correction/boost (the Lab version of adding saturation), Sharpen for image content, convert to CYMK mode, sharpen for print.

-Medley.