To be honest, I scrolled through the posts....just wanna say that if your shooting Canon,the free license to DPP4 does an amazing job...I've been using it for over a year now. Just heats up my MacBook Pro, but we are surviving.
+1 to DPP4. It's like getting a second chance at many in-camera settings. It plays well with Photoshop too with the transfer to photoshop menu. I imagine Nikon NX Studio to be very similar if shooting Nikon.