Digital Photography Workflow

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wesinatra
Nov 14, 2006
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What is your digital photography workflow from the moment you download your images from your media card to the moment you are printing? Just curious and trying to find some ideas. Thank you in advance.

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Donald_Reese
Nov 14, 2006
There is a photography forum here if you are interested. the answer to your question can be quite involved,and maybe getting more specific in your inquiry,may help get the answers you want.
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chrisjbirchall
Nov 14, 2006
* Download from card.
* Adjust WB, Exposure, Contrast, crop etc in ACR
* Make Contact Sheet/Web Gallery/or proof to clients using Bridge. * Open individual image from ACR in 16 bit, AdobeRGB1998, at generic size. * Edit/retouch in PS
* Save "Master File" complete with adjustment layers etc as 16 bit TIFF * Flatten, resize to required print size at 300ppi, sharpen, change mode to 8 bit. * Save out with a new file name, usually by appending with print size (filename_10x8.tif). * Open Master file
* Flatten, resize to screen display size at 72ppi, sharpen, change mode to 8 bit and convert profile to sRGB. Rinse and repeat as neccessary, always reopening the "Master File" for each new size.
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Andrew_Faber
Nov 14, 2006
Here is my digital photography workflow
<http://drewfaber.com/dfp-pages/the-digital-process.html>
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arnor
Nov 14, 2006
Hi,

* Download from card.

Thank you very much for posting this:) One question: Is there advantage of saving to 16bit TIFF as opposed to PSD? When testing, the PSD came out to about 96MB (66MB in 8 bit) but the 16bit TIFF was 266 MB, so there is definitely disadvantage in diskspace. Any comment on that?

Best regards,

Arnor Baldvinsson
San Antonio, Texas
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Clyde
Nov 15, 2006
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What is your digital photography workflow from the moment you download your images from your media card to the moment you are printing? Just curious and trying to find some ideas. Thank you in advance.

If I have a lot of pictures, I first convert to DNG.

Open the picture with ACR. The default setting is to make NO changes in ACR. I do bring it in 16 bit ProPhotoRGB.

Hit action to convert to LAB and then 8 bit. (I’ve never SEEN any difference in 8 bit and things run faster and smaller in 8 bit.)

Hit action to run Noise Ninja on the Lightness channel. I also do it separately on the "a" and "b" channels. Then it selects both the "a" and
"b" channels and runs surface blur on them.

Hit action to run Focus Magic. This runs twice to sharpen the picture. I know most people do it at the end, but I got tired of having to fix sharpened things after editing. So, I sharpen right after Noise Ninja and fix everything just once. Sharpening at this stage also makes it easier to see those flaws and blemishes that need to be edited out.

Manually run the filter Curvemeister to correct exposure and color. This is why I don’t fix anything in ACR; Curvemeister is much better and faster than doing it in ACR.

Then I zoom in to 200% and start to use a variety of tools to edit the details. These can vary a lot. I almost always use Healing Brush. I often use Rubber Stamp, Sponge, and Smudge. I also usually use Quick Mask and Brush.

Hit action to convert it to 8 bit RGB mode.

Then I save everything in JPEG2000 Lossless format. Hey, it’s the smallest lossless format – why not.

I let it sit for a day or two or a week, then do another edit to make sure everything is still the way I want it. I often do some fine tuning at this stage.

Then save it in the other formats the customer requires and/or print it.

Everything is subject to change depending on the picture, subject, or customer needs.

Thanks,
Clyde
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oehlers
Nov 17, 2006
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:29:27 -0600, Clyde wrote:

Open the picture with ACR. The default setting is to make NO changes in ACR. I do bring it in 16 bit ProPhotoRGB.

Can I clarify what ACR is? Adobe Camera Raw is a file type that PS might look for but this, and previous posts, appears to imply that ACR is a software used to open the files with.
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Clyde
Nov 18, 2006
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On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:29:27 -0600, Clyde wrote:

Open the picture with ACR. The default setting is to make NO changes in ACR. I do bring it in 16 bit ProPhotoRGB.

Can I clarify what ACR is? Adobe Camera Raw is a file type that PS might look for but this, and previous posts, appears to imply that ACR is a software used to open the files with.

Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) is the software that opens RAW files and puts them into Photoshop. I suppose that it is technically an Adobe plugin, but it does install separately from Photoshop. It does upgrade separately too, which is good because it needs upgrading all the time to keep up with all the new and revised RAW formats that the camera makers keep throwing at us.

So, yes, ACR is software to open RAW files with. I guess I assume that ACR would be a well known term in a Photoshop newsgroup.

Clyde
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oehlers
Nov 19, 2006
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 10:30:02 -0600, Clyde wrote:

wrote:
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:29:27 -0600, Clyde wrote:

Open the picture with ACR. The default setting is to make NO changes in ACR. I do bring it in 16 bit ProPhotoRGB.

Can I clarify what ACR is? Adobe Camera Raw is a file type that PS might look for but this, and previous posts, appears to imply that ACR is a software used to open the files with.

Adobe Camera RAW (ACR) is the software that opens RAW files and puts them into Photoshop. I suppose that it is technically an Adobe plugin, but it does install separately from Photoshop. It does upgrade separately too, which is good because it needs upgrading all the time to keep up with all the new and revised RAW formats that the camera makers keep throwing at us.

So, yes, ACR is software to open RAW files with. I guess I assume that ACR would be a well known term in a Photoshop newsgroup.

Thanks for clarifying. The few times I’ve taken RAW format pictures, I’ve opened them with PS. Next time, I’ll look to install ACR such that I can open them with this software and see for myself what the difference (if any) in procedure is.


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