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Using Adobe Lightroom Beta and Adobe Photoshop CS2
A
series of 100 articles
This
is an introduction to a series of articles, hints. tips, and
tutorials on using Adobe Lightroom Beta and Adobe Photoshop
CS2 to manage and edit your digital photography. Digital workflow
by my definition is everything that happens to an image from
the moment you see it through your camera's lens to the final
delivery on your computer screen or website, as a photographic
print, or printed in a magazine, brochure or book.
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Lightroom Beta - on an Apple 30-inch Cinema Display
Baktapur, Nepal © George Mann
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This
workflow is not meant for wedding or event photographers but
rather for advanced amateur photographers and professional
illustrative, art, travel, and advertising photographers.
Those of us who do on occasion take hundreds of photographs
per day but in the end are most interested in getting the
best we can out of a select few images.
Wedding
and event photographers can at times take thousands of photographs
on a given day and they need to present all their images to
their clients as quickly as possible. Their motivation and
work methods are different from what we are discussing in
this series.
The
basic steps involved in my Digital Photography Workflow:
a)
Capturing
the image
- this includes setting up the proper parameters in your camera,
making decisions about image type, image size, color balance,
exposure, focusing, and in-camera image enhancement.
b)
Storing
the image
- for me this is quite simply copying the image from the memory
card to one or more hard disk drives and DVDs for archival
storage of the original file.
c)
Cataloging the image
- this is the stage where metadata is added to make it easier
to manage your image library. I keep this stage separate from
the archival storage stage because it does not necessarily
need to store everything you have shot and can be project
driven. Cataloging software also changes over time and archival
storage has to last forever.
d)
Editing
the image
- there seems to be absolutely no dispute, Adobe Photoshop
CS2 is the leader in this field. Editing an image can be as
simple as resizing and cropping an image or as complicated
as creating a fantasy world out of hundreds of original image
files.
e)
Cataloging
and Archiving the Edited image
- it is important to keep a permanent and accessible record
of your digital darkroom work without disturbing the original
archived images.
f)
Presenting,
Printing & Distributing images
- the final output of all our efforts. Websites, photo albums,
archival quality prints, art galleries, online galleries &
image banks, newspapers, magazines, books, commercial clients,
etc.
Articles
in this series:
P.S. Please do not get upset if your personal experience
and views are different from my own. These opinions are mine
exclusively and do not reflect the views or policies of any
of the manufacturers mentioned in these articles ...... George
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