Your work flow

[Schizophonic]

Just want to know what everyone uses here when organising / processing photos from a day out?

I'm on a Canon 350, so i use Canon Utilies to rip the pics (raw) and download it onto "my docs" as the default location. Then use ZoomBrowser EX to view the photos - if i find a one i like to keep and process. Drag the raw into Photoshop CS3 and process it from then.

I know you use other software to begin the initial process of doing tweaks before throwing it Photoshop or other imaging editing software.

Tell us how you do it.


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[-TA-]

Lightroom for pretty much everything, Photoshop for the odd tricky retouch that Lightroom cant do

 

[sid]

I organise the files manually

Bridge for browsing RAWS, photoshop for editing them

sid

 

[binaryknight]

files inported to my "photos needing processed" folder within their own folder which consists of the date month and year - event / activity / whatever

imported to lightroom crap binned and rest processed

folder then moved with their sidecar files to my proper "photos" folder and placed in the corresponding year / month folder

 

[Raymond Lin]

Lightroom, left to right.

 

[Broadie]

Cabin doors to manual

 

[binaryknight]

Cabin doors to manual

i dont get it and the sig police are comming for you

 

[^^Gord^^]

I use Adobe Bridge to sort through them, assign keywords and add a star rating. Import into Photoshop and process to jpeg.

I should really take another look at Lightroom but I was put off it by the poor sharpening and noise reduction in the earlier editions.

 

[bigmouse64]

Is Lightroom able to pick up when new stuff has been put into a folder ie "2008_09_01 downloaded to C:/Photos" or do you have to add them all manually?

 

[GeX]

copy RAWs off camera to where i want them, import into lightroom, process, export to CS2 for any little bits / resize, then run synctoy to backup any changes to the backup drive.

 

[V-Spec]

Raws go straight off cards or downloader, to a harddisk. Import and render previews in Aperture. Colour correction and general appearance processing also done in Aperture. Convert to 16bit Tiff, Photoshop for noise reduction/retouching. 8bit JPEG sRGB output for web, adobe RGB for printing.

 

[Darren555]

Is Lightroom able to pick up when new stuff has been put into a folder ie "2008_09_01 downloaded to C:/Photos" or do you have to add them all manually?

It isn't an organiser like Adobe Bridge. You have to import pics into it but it does prompt you when a camera or storage card is connected.

Mine is set to import into Lightroom and also copy the images to the My Documents/My Pictures/RAW files folder. Within this it puts them automatically into a new folder based on date.

 

[Inquisitor]

Is Lightroom able to pick up when new stuff has been put into a folder ie "2008_09_01 downloaded to C:/Photos" or do you have to add them all manually?

The usual way to do it is just to import everything straight off the card. It then organises it for you; you never have to touch the files themselves in explorer.

 

[Shoei]

Nikon Transfer to copy nefs of the camera(also synchs the camera's clock to the pc clock at same time)
ViewNX to have a quick peep/rate pics.
CaptureNX to do any post processing.
If it needs more tweaking then saved a Tif and imported into Photoshop.
Any that want printing get saved as a tif and printed from photoshop.

 

[TwoSaints]

I use Lightroom to import the files and look after my library, which I do a weekly backup onto a second hard drive. Then I process in Lightroom and maybe a little in Photoshop (mainly for watermarks and framing though)

Occasionally have a clear out of Lightroom as it's rather full of rubbish!

 

[The_Abyss]

Import everything from the card onto my 'working' hdd into a new folder normally created by date (backed up weekly from another hdd - I have hdd failure phobia). Start Lightroom, import everything in the Library, adding all tags etc as it goes. I rarely apply any blanket processing any longer.

Quick scan through, deleting the rubbish. Photoshop only gets used if Lightroom can't cope, which is rare.

 

[Helium_Junkie]

Import into lightroom (with backup, need new hard drives ), check white balance, open in photoshop for crop/edits. Save final files as tiffs in the same folder as original, and as resized jpegs on the desktop to remind me to upload em (then delete).

 

[rpstewart]

• Download from card(s) using Downloader Pro to "new images\<date>" path
• Backup to external drive
• Import into Lightroom catalogue
• First pass through in Lightroom, delete the duffers, flag the keepers
• Resync with the external drive to purge the duffers and backup the Lightroom database
• Second pass in Lightroom, crops, minor edits etc. Major edits in Photoshop if warranted
• Export to Tiff in "converted" path next to the original RAWs
• Backup the TIFFs
• Do a final sort of the RAWs and TIFFs from the "new images\<date>" folders to "new images\<subject>"
• Once there's enough of a subject to fill a DVD then burn 2 copies
• Drop off second DVD at the parents next time there's something decent being cooked

 

[King_Boru]

Simple: Aperture

 

[sid]

• Download from card(s) using Downloader Pro to "new images\<date>" path
• Backup to external drive
• Import into Lightroom catalogue
• First pass through in Lightroom, delete the duffers, flag the keepers
• Resync with the external drive to purge the duffers and backup the Lightroom database
• Second pass in Lightroom, crops, minor edits etc. Major edits in Photoshop if warranted
• Export to Tiff in "converted" path next to the original RAWs
• Backup the TIFFs
• Do a final sort of the RAWs and TIFFs from the "new images\<date>" folders to "new images\<subject>"
• Once there's enough of a subject to fill a DVD then burn 2 copies
• Drop off second DVD at the parents next time there's something decent being cooked

That is a bit tedious lol

I think I need to invest in an external HDD though sometime

sid