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Marc Pélissier – Friday January 28th 2011

It’s all about Workflow

Far from complexity …. Let’s share our workflows best practices

Today’s Workflow

Why Sorting & Indexing ?Pre-digital Era recall

Different sorting objectives ?

Process or Photography step ?

Why is it so important ? The true objectives

How to do it in Lightroom ?Lightroom Assets

Methodology overview

And a real life example (demo)…

Why Sorting & Indexing?

Clearly to avoid the mess ! …. But more than that still …

From Pre Digital Era

Before

What you need to recallSame concepts do apply : sort, label, storeDigital mean additional automagic : search and automate

Before

Now

Universal Sorting ?

Memories

Avoid duplicates

Pro processWhat you need to recall

Clearly NoDifferent objectives, Different photographers

Process or Photography step ?

What you need to recallSorting imply deletionDelete is a photographer’s decisionLabeling is a photographer’s duty

Why is it so important ?

Objective No 1 : Avoid the red bar !!!

OK : you have Terabytes disks ! But …

Why is it so important ?

Objective No 2 : Find a picture !

Why is it so important ?

Objective No 3 : Find THE picture !

You don’t want it to take forever You need THE pearl !

Why is it so important ?

Objective No 4 : Protect your highly volatile Digital Negatives

What you need to recallYou need to be able to find pictures easilyYou must protect your work result

How to do it in Lightroom ?

Lightroom assets

What you need to recallLightroom is your friend for metadata : Exif, IPTC, KeywordsDon’t forget dynamic Collections Lightroom is thought for workflow and flexible for customization

One Method

CommonMetadata

IdentifyPano

& HDR

Geolocalization

IPTCAuto magic

IndividualMetadata

TitleLegend

Pano& HDR

Assembly

B&W(Preset)

CoreSorting

Stars

Labels

Archive

Enough smoke !

Time for a quick demo