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Question: from Melanie: “What does your typical editing process involve?
Corbi: Watermark and upping the contrast of a picture that’s it
Ellie: Messing with the curves, possibly putting it in B&W, watermark. Enhancing colors that need enhancing too. Oh and possibly some dodging and burning.
Chris: Downloading the pics from my camera and letting my wife edit them!
Brandi: Depends on what I am doing I can get a little crazy. All in all for portraits small inhancments if needed watermark vigenting
Wendi: Things I always check to see if it needs editing: crop, exposure, clarify/sharpen, boost color or I do like to add filters/layers a lot to my pics (personal preference) to gain a certain look. If I need to take some unecessary object out I will use y clonign tool but it’s rare that i do that. Then I add a watermark if I am posting it for others to view.
Christina: Pretty much same as Wendi. I check every picture in LR and if it needs love, it gets it. Otherwise, I tag pics that need any major fixes for PS and then make a handful black and white. Export, done.
Selena: Hey Wendi, I’d love to see some of your layered work! Can you post a link to BP4U’s page? 🙂
Mollie: I shoot in Raw. So I upload, open them in Adobe Bridge and pick out the keepers, THEN edit the keepers in Raw edit mode, save as a copy (jpeg), then use Bridge to rename the files and burn them to a disc. ALWAYS sort before you edit. No sense in wasting your time!
Sonya: outsourcing to someone else,I wanna work on my business,the countless hours I spend editing could be spent doing other things so I outsource,I now have a life
Sonya: Photographers Edit or Edit2Blog(In Australia)are 2 companies that do editing
Sondra: Not much the software that came with the camera. Mostly just lighting and white balance adjustments. I also have faststone viewer which is great for taking out small imperfections like scratches on glass or dust on sensor or uv filter.
Andrea: Most common way for my editing:
Open in LR & get exposure & shadows how I like
Bump up the contrast maybe a touch ( depending on the look I’m going for)
Make the blacks heavier and richer
Then very lightly soften the skin
Bring my vibrancy up (used to do saturation and it always looked over done)
Bring to PS6 only if I need to clean some skin up or apply a specific action… 😉
Or move anything out
And then watermark and upload on FB 😉 ( BEST PART!!!)
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