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Workflow time savers
Scott Morgan, Photographer
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Rockford | IL | United States | Posted: 10:21 PM on 09.10.07 |
->> Sometimes I'm amazed at how people work. Either they know all the tricks and are able to edit, caption and tone really fast, or they don't use any tricks and work slow. I thought I'd ask what little tricks you use to make life easier.
Here's my favorite Photo Mechanic trick. In the IPTC stationary pad, I always have this string of variables saved:
{iptcdow}, {iptcmonthnameap} {iptcday}, {iptcyear4}
This imputs the date embedded in the image in the format, Monday, Sept. 10, 2007 in AP style. Since I realized I could do this, I never have to write the date.
So what have you got that's going to make me wonder how I ever got by without it? |
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Gabriel Hernandez, Photographer
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Harlingen | TX | USA | Posted: 10:27 PM on 09.10.07 |
| ->> I edit photos by 1. Levels, 2. Colors, 3. Saturation, 4. Curves, 5. Crop, and Finally the caption ... Who, what, where, when, why ..... |
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Rainier Ehrhardt, Photographer
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Augusta | GA | USA | Posted: 10:35 PM on 09.10.07 |
->> Hey thanks for that Scott, I learned something new today.
Big fan of PM. The more I can do in PM, the better. Loading and entering captions in PS just takes too long. |
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Jason Johns, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Biddeford | ME | USA | Posted: 10:46 PM on 09.10.07 |
->> PM is really cool, so is Lightroom especially if you have a dual monitor setup. Run the photo browser on one screen & PS in another. Since PM & LR both export photos to PS, all I have to do after renaming all the files & customizing the metadata for the event is press a key & an action runs that duplicates the BG layer & adjusts shadow/highlight, then creates a Levels, Curves, Selective Color & Saturation layers. Then I caption, press another key that saves the file as both a PSD & HQ JPG in my edit folder. After that, I just have to move the files to the appropriate folder & I'm done. Of course, this only works if you edit a single event at a time.. it wouldn't be good for you to submit photos of mens rugby when your editor is expecting high school soccer!
Of course, it really helps if you have a decent computer system too! I developed this workflow on a Celeron 1.6GHZ with 1gb RAM, and I usually averaged about 90-120 seconds editing a photo depending if I needed to run Noise Ninja, now that I'm on a Core 2 Duo with 2 gigs RAM, I average 60 seconds/photo with NN. Really comes in handy when you shoot multiple events at a university & have a couple thousand frames to wend through on a deadline & unfinished homework that needs to be done... |
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Jordan Murph, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Honolulu & Los Angeles | HI/CA | USA | Posted: 11:37 PM on 09.10.07 |
->> Setup generic IPTC caption template in the Global IPTC stationary pad before the game starts so that you can quickly paste onto all images that need to be captioned. Then you only need to enter specific info for the picture.
Tag photos in camera while shooting. They ingest first with Photo Mechanic. Know what you have before ingesting. To save even more time, ingest only the tagged photos to get a handful of image moved quickly.
Set up code replacements for both teams. Then you only have to enter something like .uh15. and up will pop something like "University of Hawaii quarterback Colt Brennan (15)". They're easy to set up, just do it well ahead of time. For college I contact the school SID for the travel roster to know who'll be playing instead of trusting what's online.
Have actions set up in Photoshop for regular tasks if you have to tone your pictures before transmitting. Having one-click access to things like Levels, Curves, Shadow/Highlight, or USM save a lot of time.
Use the FTP client built into Photo Mechanic to transmit files fast with one keystroke. It'll save bandwidth and makes sure that photos get moved as quickly as possible instead of waiting to have a bunch ready and waiting while they all transmit. Transmit while you edit the next.
Hope this helps.
Aloha,
Jordan |
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Michael Cullen, Photographer
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Wexford Town | 0000 | Ireland | Posted: 5:53 PM on 09.11.07 |
->> What does this mean:-
Tag photos in camera?
thanks |
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Joe Andras, Photographer
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Orange County | CA | USA | Posted: 6:02 PM on 09.11.07 |
->> ->> Michael asked,
What does this mean:- Tag photos in camera?
Michael, on a Nikon, it means chimping while occasionally pressing the button that looks like the key for a lock.
PM will treat images pre-marked in the cammera with the key button as tagged. |
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Doug McSchooler, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Avon | IN | USA | Posted: 7:08 PM on 09.11.07 |
->> Here is the string that I use for freelance work in my Photo Mechanic IPTC caption field. The variables are pulled from the various other fields:
{date} -- {city}, {state} -- {object} -- {location} -- --photo by {photog}/{source}
I have a few different clients that I have in my source field pop-up menu.
I'm anxious to see how other people are using variables to their advantage. I know that Photo Mechanic is pretty powerful when it comes to streamlining production. |
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Ron Scheffler, Photographer
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Hamilton (Toronto area) | Ontario | Canada | Posted: 8:53 PM on 09.11.07 |
->> Time saver on deadline: don't use Photoshop.
Doing everything in Photo Mechanic saves time and is a very efficient workflow. Generic IPTC and captions prepared ahead of time along with code replacement is very effective, then just crop, ftp and that's it. Leave the color correction work to prepress and concentrate instead on quickly selecting and transmitting the best shots. |
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Michael Brown, Photographer
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Roxburgh Park | Victoria | Australia | Posted: 11:12 PM on 09.11.07 |
| ->> If I've got nothing else out of this thread, it's that I can tag in camera, how great is that!!! Sorry Robert, looks like I'm going to have to start chimping again (did I ever stop?) |
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Primoz Jeroncic, Photographer
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Kranj | SI | Slovenia | Posted: 7:19 AM on 09.12.07 |
->> My workflow is pretty much same as Jordan's, except that I also rename files while ingesting.
Next to that I normally select set of photos (5-10) in PM and edit them in Photoshop. Once I'm done I put that set to transmit via FTP straight from PM, and then select next set to edit in Photoshop. As Jordan wrote, this way you transmit already made photos while still working on others, so once last photo is done, there's only few left to transmit and not whole batch of them. Another tip for this. Personally I mark (now with PM 4.5 with star rating, in 4.4 I just assigned them different color) photos which I put to transmit, just to avoid transmitting them twice. With 30 or 40 photos sitting there, it's quite easy to send some of them twice, and some of them not even once :) |
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