My RAW Workflow slides from PhotoCampHouston.
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2. What is
Workflow?
The WHOLE process
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Import
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Metadata
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Backup
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Edit
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Develop
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Finish
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Share
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3. Why RAW?
Massive increase in pixel data
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8 bits (JPEG) - 256 values
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12 bits (RAW) - 4,096 values
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14 bits (RAW) - 16,384 values
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Finer gradation of tone
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More accurate color
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Much more latitude in
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exposure and room for “error”
Workflow tools exist
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5. Why RAW
Now?
Workflow, workflow, workflow
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RAW is now easier overall than
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JPEG, with the right tools
Confluence of technologies:
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Software tools
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Camera speed
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Memory capacity
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Cheap drives
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6. The Old
Copy files off card
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View/edit in... ? Photoshop?
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Open in Photoshop
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Process, save PSD file
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Save a JPEG copy... where?
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Save a small copy... where?
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Black and white version? Copy
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Crop? Copy
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And so on
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7. The New
Import and apply metadata
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Integrated backup
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Mark (star) good images
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Develop marked images
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Make any number of variations
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(crops, BW, etc.)
Maybe finish some in PS
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Export what is needed directly
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Discard exports, no copies
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14. Which Tool?
Bridge is pretty clunky, and iView MediaPro actually
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doesn’t do anything simply doesn’t do much of anything
really well
C1PRO is maybe the best RAW
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converter in terms of image iPhoto is OK but limited and
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quality, but batch workflow is still makes lots of copies
clunky and everything else is
Picasa is pretty limited
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missing
Aperture and Lightroom are the
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PhotoMechanic is great at
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only complete tools
import and metadata, only
16. Things Apple
Forgot
No curves?!
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Granular lift-and-stamp
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Lift-and-stamp actions instead
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of settings
Midtone contrast!!
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Color-based grayscale (instead
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of RGB channel-based)
Saving a set of adjustments
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Non-destructive selective
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adjustments
17. Lightroom
Fantastic develop controls
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Great “out of the box” look
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Convenient metadata
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Cross-platform
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Easy access to files
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Excellent sharpening
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Fantastic develop controls!
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Great PS integration
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19. And The Best
Tool Is...
The one that comes out after
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Apple buys Adobe, Aperture
gets Lightroom’s develop
module, and both of them give
up and license the Capture One
RAW engine!
Sigh.
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TRY THEM OUT! 30 day trials
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FTW!
On Windows? Just get
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Lightroom
20. Why Does It
Matter?
Get back to shooting
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Get back to your life
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Get great results
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Get creative
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Find your images
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Save your images
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21. Key Practices: Metadata and
Backup
Keyword like crazy BACK UP!
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Keyword AT IMPORT! Back up locally (Time Machine,
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etc.)
Assign copyright at import
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Back up remotely (Photoshelter,
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Aperture and Lightroom both
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Backblaze, ...)
make this painless (pretty
much) Ship a backup drive to your
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mom
Your images have value beyond
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their immediate use: make sure Every hard drive will fail, most
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you can find them without any warning
Don’t lose your images
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