I’ve been tweaking my workflow over the last few weeks and think I’ve got a good system. That said, I am not a pro and am probably missing A LOT of things…but this is working for me right now.
Here’s my workflow right now.
- I take my card from the camera and drop it into my reader.
- Import into Lightroom 2.
- Do a quick review to find out of focus and poor images and delete them.
- Start working through the shots and rating them (5-star, 4-star, etc)…I do this quickly to get my first instinctual read on the photo.
- Filter by 5 star and start editing in Photoshop. I crop, sharpen and do other fun things…lots of cool actions out there.
- Save the edit.
- Repeat Step 5 to edit all photos I want to edit.
- When done editing, I select the “Export” option to upload to Flickr.
- To export, I use Jeffrey Friedl’s Flickr Upload Lightroom 2 Plugin along with Timothy Armes’ LR2/Mogrify to add my a watermark to the photo (this is a new step for me).
I’ve cut down my workflow from a hodge-podge of playing around with photos to a more streamlined method. Since I’m not selling my photos, I upload to Flickr so I can easily share with others…works perfectly for me.
Any others care to share their workflow?
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