What is YOUR Workflow? Suggestions Please!

Drew1992 · Jul 8, 2011

What do you typically do in terms of your workflow?
Do you import into LR , convert your RAW images in either LR or Camera RAW, do a few basic edits there with WB, Camera Profile, removing blemishes, etc, do some editing in Photoshop, and then head to a software program such as NIK Software Viveza 2 for more overall editing, then use other software such as SEIM Effects or LR or CS5 Plug-in's, presets, textures, overlays, etc for the finishing touches and then sharpen?
I am a newbie trying to figure out a good, much more efficient workflow for my editing process. I'd appreciate any and all input about YOUR workflow and what you do from importing to prints.

Thanks!

Trever1t · Jul 8, 2011

For most I will import with LR, basic edit and export to PS for the finishing touches.

The_Traveler · Jul 8, 2011

Trever1t said:
For most I will import with LR, basic edit and export to PS for the finishing touches.

Me, too. Exactly

Most of that other plug-in stuff is, imo, excessive. The furthest I will go is using NIK EFEX Pro for grain effects I can't do by hand.

If you are a newbie, don't go overboard with processing and effects.
Learn to do good conventional images before you start exercising the outskirts of your artistic abilities.

Drew1992 · Jul 8, 2011

Thanks so much for sharing your own workflow process with me. I appreciate the input

KmH · Jul 10, 2011

Though I have Lightroom I do most of my Raw conversion and parametric editing using the identical rendering engine that CS5 Camera Raw has - ACR 6.

I don't make enough images to justify using Lightroom for import, but I do use Lightroom to manage my image database.

I do my image database management after I finish with all my editing. In other words, I use Bridge to import, cull, and rate images from a shoot, and host Camera Raw to do batch and individual parametric edits.