Fellow Photographers, I have a question! Culling Processes. What programmes do you use for customers to choose what they want editing? TIA
As a commercial photographer, I need to utilise and simplify the process between me having 1500 RAWs from a day of product shooting... and the company choosing their favourites to edit (without sending them the originals).
Specifically for when they need to look up close eg. dated engraved cufflinks for example, not for when you can easily PDF contact sheet images for a say portrait shoot. I don't want to have 4 images to a contact page so they can see the detail, if it means me having to process 375 pages on lightroom and send, that instantly looks horrific for anyone to have to sort through.
Programmes? Websites? Viewing galleries that can hack that much in GB uploads?
Thanks in Advance !! X
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- The best out at the moment are as follows,, Adobe light room, Adobe Bridge,, acdsee ultimate,, faststone,, breeze browser,, photomachanic,, and fast raw viewer,,
- @Neil Pho @Kid Circus Thank you to the both of you for your help! I am a lightroo loupe view and shortcut gal myself too, just need the client quick access part of it down. I'll definitely explore Pixieset thank you! X
- Pixiset is for client proofing. The link contains all you need to know.For initial selection (winnowing) the industry standard has always been Photo Mechanic. But Lightroom has imroved enormously in speed over the years. I have returned from a three hour shoot with three thousand images or more. I just use embedded previews and select within Lightroom. The trick is to stay in the loupe view and not go into the develop module. Using caps-lock and the keyboard shortcuts speeds up the process as well.
- @Lauren Mabbett Yes, these are available for anyone who wants to buy the licence: https://www.fastrawviewer.com/I'm not sure you can watermark within the program, as I haven't really explored it beyond using it for the culling process, tbh. If I've ever watermarked my images I usually do this within Lightroom.
- @Neil Pho @Kid Circus Thank you so much for these! Are these programmes for both customer and photographer? Can you watermark the imagery or show them copyrighted whilst they are chosen do you know or is it literally just to view and cull? X
- this used to be a REAL issue for me. But a couple of years ago, someone put me onto a program called Fast Raw Viewer and I haven't looked back. I just load up my raw files from my chosen folder and you can color code/star rate files the same way you would in a program like Lightroom. Then you can choose to delete your so-called rejects before importing the rest of the files into your chosen photo editing software. :-)
- https://pixieset.com/
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