Highest scored 'workflow' questions

113 votes

18 answers

9k views

How can I better organise and file my photos?

At present I meticulously add metadata as EXIF tags to my photos using Microsoft Pro Photo Tools, which also lets me place them accurately on a map. The thing is I tend to leave photos in a folder ...

Rowland Shaw

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asked Jul 15, 2010 at 19:23

36 votes

11 answers

5k views

Is version control software used for photos?

I am a software developer at heart and by trade, and spend a lot of time in development tools... One of the more useful development tool types is version control, and for the uninitiated, it works ...

TiernanO

615

asked Feb 15, 2012 at 9:24

35 votes

15 answers

14k views

Why store both JPEG and raw?

DSLRs often have the ability to store both a JPEG and a raw file. Given that the primary benefit of in-camera JPEG over raw is the smaller filesize, and that JPEG+raw is going to store even more data ...

Evan Krall

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asked Mar 29, 2011 at 7:52

35 votes

18 answers

3k views

What software is focused on reviewing and organizing images?

If I wanted to just view, sort, and organize (via tags or folders or both), what programs are geared toward doing this quickly? I know I could do this in most any photo editor, but it's not ideal for ...

robertpateii

451

asked Oct 25, 2010 at 20:28

35 votes

13 answers

3k views

What's the best number of shots to combine to produce an HDR photo?

What's the optimal number of shots to produce a high dynamic range Does it vary from scene to scene? Do the capabilities or limitations of my camera factor in? Are there different HDR techniques ...

abhi

603

asked Aug 5, 2010 at 20:36

34 votes

5 answers

24k views

Good workflow to review and delete photos with Darktable?

I've just got a new camera, which I have already started taking a lot of photos with. Hard drive space isn't THAT cheap, and I would like to get a work-flow together to quickly go through images, ...

ryanjdillon

443

asked Mar 2, 2013 at 23:13

33 votes

5 answers

4k views

What is an efficient way to digitize a family photo collection?

There is a good answer to a similar question here: What is the best way to digitize old photographs for preservation This came up on reddit. The problem posed however is different: Dad died, ...

Sherwood Botsford

1,768

asked Feb 22, 2019 at 13:50

32 votes

5 answers

11k views

Is there an EXIF standard for tagging people in photographs?

There are a number of websites that let you tag people in photos, such as Facebook and now flickr, but is there an EXIF standard for tagging who is in a photo, and where they are?

Rowland Shaw

16k

asked Jul 15, 2010 at 20:22

28 votes

4 answers

12k views

What are the differences between Picasa and Lightroom, other than price?

I've heard about Adobe Lightroom before, but never really understood what's so great about it, or why you'd pay for it when you can get Picasa for free. I know Lightroom probably has more ...

Keithius

383

asked Aug 8, 2010 at 14:13

26 votes

5 answers

2k views

What benefit does Lightroom 3 offer over Photoshop + Bridge?

I've been happily using Photoshop and Bridge to manage and edit my digital photos. I'm aware that Lightroom 3 was recently released, and decided to take a look at it, since Lightroom has been widely ...

Grant Palin

3,109

asked Jul 15, 2010 at 19:24

25 votes

0 answers

1k views

How do you select the 10 best images from a set of 300? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What's a good strategy for choosing which photos to keep? I have read that photographers are rarely the best editors of their own images. As digital cameras make it so ...

Zippy

351

asked Mar 11, 2011 at 22:54

22 votes

4 answers

2k views

How do I explain that post-processing is an important step in producing good photos?

Yesterday I shot a few very good pictures, went home and post-processed them. After a few hours, I showed the results to my friends. They told me "you did that with Photoshop", as I which is true, but ...

D4Am

666

asked Feb 8, 2013 at 9:53

19 votes

8 answers

21k views

Is there photo analysis software which will pre-sort images by identifying potential technical problems?

I recently went on vacation and took close to 1,000 photographs. As usual there are some good ones, bad ones, blurry ones, etc. In order to expedite post-processing, I was wondering if there is any ...

RyanKDalton

299

asked Feb 20, 2012 at 13:16

18 votes

13 answers

13k views

How do I keep track of many, many clients in a single shoot (like a school portrait day)?

I am to set up a photo booth at a local fair. I will have a different subject every few minutes. I am to email them their photo afterwards. How would you keep track of each photo to each customer to ...

Tiki

181

asked Oct 19, 2015 at 14:46

18 votes

7 answers

9k views

Which software can batch-process RAW photos on Linux?

I'm interested in efficient processing of RAW photos on Linux. I've played with RAW a little, but so far I've always reverted back to JPG as I can't be bothered to spend hours doing post-processing. ...

Hamish Downer

6,328

asked Jul 16, 2010 at 15:01

18 votes

7 answers

12k views

How should one best manage large collections of photographs?

With gigabytes of pictures accumulating over time, I'm wondering what systems (software, strategies, etc.) people are using to keep track of their collections? Let's say you remember a picture and you ...

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Andre Holzner

17 votes

4 answers

3k views

What is the optimal order of post-processing steps?

I know it's best to do as much post-processing before converting from RAW, but in cases where it's not possible - what is the optimal order of post-processing steps (like noise removal, dust-spot ...

Karel

10.7k

asked Aug 10, 2010 at 13:38

17 votes

9 answers

4k views

What are some of your pre-shoot checklist tips?

I'm always in a hurry and never really check my camera settings before a snapping a few photos using whatever setting the camera was left on. I'm thinking I should probably try to put a checklist into ...

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Michael McCarty

15 votes

9 answers

6k views

How to compare RAW photos quickly?

It's not uncommon for me to return from a hike or outing and have 500+ images to "sift" before getting started on post processing. Is there a better way to compare 5-10 photos of the same image ...

Graham

151

asked Aug 29, 2011 at 12:41

15 votes

3 answers

1k views

How does photography for digital display only differ?

I only want to capture images with the intent of displaying them on a digital screen. I do not want to print the images, ever. Do any specific considerations need to be made upon capturing the image ...

dpollitt

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asked Mar 15, 2012 at 23:42

14 votes

4 answers

8k views

Is Lightroom overkill for a JPG-oriented workflow?

I am a passionate not a professional, I shoot most of the time in jpg because: I usually don't have the time to process raw raw takes a lot more space (and I feel my D700 jpgs are huge already!) and ...

Stefano

391

asked May 9, 2012 at 22:29

14 votes

4 answers

2k views

What software or workflow can I use to keep track of who is who at events?

I sometimes shoot at public events. I will take pictures of people/groups and, if they like the photos, give them a card with my email on so they can get a copy of the photo(s) later, if they want. To ...

Blank

263

asked May 30, 2012 at 10:28

13 votes

5 answers

944 views

What is your workflow for "don't care" photos?

Let's say you've got a set of photos in a trip and, apart from a few really noteworthy, all others are nice photos, but not so much for you to spend a lot of time processing on them. In such ...

zzzbbx

1,847

asked Feb 22, 2013 at 8:47

13 votes

11 answers

7k views

What's good photo management software for dealing with a huge library?

My wife's computer has probably 100 GBs of photos--thousands upon thousands of photos. We've been using Windows Live Photo Gallery (Windows 7) and things have been pretty good. The features and ...

Jonathan Oliver

275

asked Mar 11, 2011 at 4:29

13 votes

8 answers

1k views

Reservations on making the move to Adobe Lightroom or Apple's Aperture

Background I'm a web developer (diploma) and computer scientist (degree), so I know a thing or two about computers and software. I just got into photography in Nov '10, but have been using Photoshop ...

bafromca

434

asked Apr 13, 2011 at 16:56

13 votes

4 answers

757 views

What are the benefits of using Collections in Adobe Lightroom?

I use Lightroom a lot (and love it), but I don't use Collections at all, instead just preferring to keep photos in folders, and then tag/flag/pick within that. People often rave about Collections, ...

frumious

1,148

asked Jul 15, 2010 at 21:18

13 votes

2 answers

2k views

Are digital backdrop workflows more cost efficient than muslin backdrops for studios?

Short Version Digital backdrops (chroma color with backdrop added in post production) are being pushed on photographers more and more these days. While it's obvious the flexibility that this provides ...

AndyML

3,185

asked Jun 26, 2012 at 20:31

12 votes

6 answers

8k views

What workflow or tools can be used for tagging of a large number of running race photos?

Let's say you attend a marathon where participants wear bibs with their race number. You take hundreds or (cough) thousands of pictures and would like to upload them to share them (for free) with ...

Craig H

221

asked Apr 13, 2011 at 23:11

11 votes

7 answers

5k views

Tagging stuff: plural or singular?

My photo collection is pretty meagre but I've noticed that over time I seem to have moved between tagging photos with the plural of a noun, like "bridges" or "mountains" and at other times, the ...

ninesided

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asked Feb 25, 2012 at 1:28

11 votes

4 answers

3k views

Which is best as part of a fast workflow: Picasa, Lightroom, Photoshop or other?

Im looking to expand on my workflow after a shoot. Today my workflow consists of moving images from my SD card to my computer, using Picasa in a very basic d way... (Crop, im feeling lucky and maybe ...

kacalapy

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asked Dec 22, 2010 at 20:36

11 votes

4 answers

2k views

How to automatically identify bracketed image sets among 100s of images?

I take a lot of photos. Quite many of those (cca 50%) are bracketed ones to create HDR images later. I would like to automatically identify the bracketed sets and move those to a separate folder for ...

Atis

469

asked Oct 4, 2012 at 15:40

11 votes

2 answers

575 views

Where in my workflow should I sharpen?

All my photography tools have sharpening options. My camera has sharpening (in the picture profile). Not sure that applies to RAW though. In Lightroom I can sharpen twice: in develop and in export ...

rompetroll

541

asked Dec 16, 2012 at 21:47

11 votes

5 answers

527 views

What sites exist for posting client proofs? [closed]

As I'm doing more and more photo shoots, I'm looking for a site in which I can post proofs for clients to look at. I would use Flickr, however the images can be downloaded and I obviously don't want ...

Sarah

asked Oct 29, 2010 at 16:02

11 votes

1 answer

442 views

What workflow do you follow for managing your photography?

I hear that this is the most vital to store/manage/edit and other tasks. What is your ideal workflow?

CodeToGlory

2,291

asked Aug 9, 2010 at 1:07

11 votes

3 answers

1k views

What properties of an image could be used to programmatically discard it as "bad"?

I'd like to have a quicker review process of my photos when I dump them from the camera to the computer. Surely there are some parameters that I can extract programmatically from the photos and this ...

Carlos Campderrós

358

asked Jun 2, 2015 at 21:17

10 votes

4 answers

414 views

What workflow will preserve color accuracy?

My current workflow as regards color spaces is this: Shoot in Adobe98 colorspace in RAW. Process on a calibrated Mac monitor (I believe that the gamma is 2.2) using Lightroom Produce jpgs in sRGB for ...

mmr

5,189

asked Aug 2, 2010 at 9:34

10 votes

3 answers

10k views

How to delete "unused" raw files which have no .jpg match?

I shoot RAW+JPG, namely NEF and JPG. After viewing sometimes hundreds of images (using a simple program) and deleting the JPGs, I have many unnecessary leftover NEF files. If there was a script to ...

Al H

101

asked Apr 10, 2012 at 1:03

10 votes

4 answers

8k views

How should I use Lightroom for processing for photo lab prints?

I'm a recent Lightroom convert, and I've come to appreciate its built-in workflow for library management and developing. I'm still stymied by printing, however, because I want to use an online lab ...

D. Lambert

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asked Jun 20, 2011 at 16:10

10 votes

6 answers

1k views

Is there any amateur software for organizing & tagging photos across multiple computers?

I travel a lot, and would like to be able to edit, tags and organize photos from two separate machines. Sometimes my wife may be doing it from the home computer while I am doing it from a laptop while ...

SF Photo Taker

asked Dec 25, 2010 at 9:13

10 votes

2 answers

928 views

Which exif tag to use to add filter data?

I've started using ND and polarizer filters in my shots. Since I'm learning to use them, I'd like to manually add this info to exif/iptc/xmp metadata of my shots, so later I can find images taken ...

gerlos

726

asked May 29, 2013 at 13:23

10 votes

3 answers

1k views

Does Lightroom apply edits in the order I do them, or does it intelligently reorder them?

The matter of the correct order of applying sharpening has been discussed various times (I will pick this question as an example, but it's not the only one), with a clear consensus which can be summed ...

Francesco

4,079

asked Dec 26, 2012 at 13:05

9 votes

6 answers

6k views

Should I add my exported photos to my Lightroom catalog?

After processing my RAW files in Lightroom, I often export JPGs to give to people or to post online. I create these files in a directory structure under an \Export top level directory. I'm trying to ...

seanmc

5,085

asked Jan 19, 2012 at 4:52

9 votes

4 answers

2k views

Is there a typical settings order before shooting?

Suppose we have time to shoot with an DSLR. Before actually shooting, some settings have to be adjusted to get a picture. Suppose we have a brand new DSLR in hand and every setting has to be defined. ...

Stéphane Péchard

311

asked Apr 18, 2011 at 16:33

9 votes

4 answers

797 views

How to look back on 10 years of photography?

I started photography about 10 years ago and always took it seriously. I started taking landscape images and then also developed an interest in macro and wildlife photography. Taking pictures was ...

Arji

1,633

asked Nov 28, 2020 at 18:05

9 votes

2 answers

2k views

What does "workflow" mean?

I keep seeing the term "workflow" in relation to post-processing being used here and on other sites. What does it actually mean though? To me it sounds like it means you do A, then B, then C every ...

NULLZ

2,536

asked Mar 13, 2013 at 1:13

9 votes

3 answers

5k views

In Lightroom how can I see all photos that have been modified after they were exported

I am using Adobe Lightroom 4 and shoot RAW+JPG. I normally post process all my images and then bulk export them back out to JPG when done overwriting the original JPGs but sometimes I might forget to ...

Joe Solano

571

asked May 3, 2012 at 1:33

8 votes

6 answers

1k views

Is Lightroom 4 quicker if I use a separate catalog per image folder?

I am trying to improve my workflow and was wondering if I could achieve a greater level of performace from Lightroom 4 if I were to create a separate catalog for each time I import.

Rob

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asked Dec 12, 2012 at 14:16

8 votes

5 answers

2k views

How much metadata do you add to your photos?

In Bridge CS5, I've been updating my photos' metadata and IPTC fields. There are a lot of fields available...How much of them do you typically fill out? I can tell I'd at least want to put in my name, ...

Grant Palin

3,109

asked Jul 18, 2010 at 2:02

8 votes

6 answers

3k views

What Photoshop plugins are must haves? [closed]

When you as a photographer edit your photos in Photoshop (after some processing using Camera Raw or Lightroom) are there any Plug-ins/Actions/etc. (free or paid) that are must haves for you as a ...

L84

3,568

asked Dec 20, 2011 at 4:08

8 votes

4 answers

1k views

Black background post processing tips?

This week I've been experimenting with getting some things photographed with a completely black background. Following some tips on this site about background distance etc, I came to the following set-...

Emiel

524

asked May 23, 2013 at 12:14

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