ULTIMATE Photography Editing Workflow: I spent 10 YEARS perfecting this ten-step workflow!

Hi Kevin. Thanks for sharing. Do you prefer Autoretouch, an AI-powered image editing tool to automate ghost mannequins, clipping path, background removal, etc. image editing process? I found it super cool and easy to operate. Need your opinion regarding this.

This is awesome!!! You've helped me so much! I learned more than i expected.

Hi Kevin, been trough a lot since 'lockdown v1.0!' and decided to do my way into sports photography...to be short. Came across your channel today and is very interesting to say the least. looking forward to browse through. Cheers

You forgot to drop the mic at the end of your video ! ;) Great job !

Are you a native English speaker? I thought the stress in the verbs "to impOrt/expOrt" is on the 2nd syllable

Why not using usb drives? much more handy, imho

Gosh.....Wish I watched this on July 3rd, 2020 lol. Thank you for the incredible insight.

Love this! Thank you! I have been using ps forever and in the last few years LR and your explanation between the two is so spot on and also helps just making the decision of which to “rely” on for rapid process. Also PM has been mentioned to me for a while now as volume and batches are inevitable and now captioning is just bonkers in proper information and transference in a timely manner.
Dropbox has definitely its pros and cons and agreed that it serves a purpose for the initial parts of storage but most definitely should not be used dependency.
Will check out the other options. I want control in flow and storage so most probably will go with Goodsync.
Thank you again. Will subscribe and if there are any other tutorials will check them out. Heaven sent.

Great workflow and straight to the point explanations. I will copy some of these from you. Thank you! :)

Excellent video!

Awesome, job! I like you motivation.

I like your comments upon photo editors in another video could you address Windows machines as to how much horsepower do you need such as processor memory graphics and so forth

You are Mr. Efficient !!

This is brilliant. Thank you so much. Do you have any videos on Lightroom and catalog management?

Thank you for this!

I liked your video a lot, but i must say, if you are working in photoshop and working destructively, you are simply using Photoshop wrong. If you do not use layers, you propably dont need photoshop and can stay in lightroom or capture one.. But if you do open photoshop there is no reason to not create new layers often.

beside that you nailed everything.

man your workflow is extremely efficient! not an idle second. thank you for the tips.

SO helpful and thorough - thank you for putting this together! Just to clarify - you are copying (not moving) your tagged pictures from PM to Lightroom ?

Great video. Straigth to the topic, no nonsense. Love how effective your workflow is. Subscribed.

Wow, great information but way too fast for me. I know I can stop and start and review anytime I want to, but this is still a lot of information.

Oh my gosh. As a photography idiot and drone newbie this will significantly cut down on the non-productive frustrating tasks while I'm getting my practice reps in.

subbed, super informative from the start

Thank for the video, and especially the back up part. Even pros don’t have a clue about RAID storage and using the 3-2-1 back up scheme.
As for editing and culling software. We switched to Capture One and Affinity Photo 6 months ago. We haven’t looked back. Capture One’s raw engine is unmatched. No need to use multiple software for culling and editing. It’s crazy fast and we editing in raw, with layers, 97% of the time. We chose the perpetual license. Crazy.

What about all these nba shooters appearing to shoot tethered or ?

Wanted deeper

great video, love the detail that you went into!

How,do,I,send from my cam to beat the iPhoto peeps ?canon 1dxii but guess I’ll trade down or up to a r6 for wifi efffff canon eerrrr 😝

I see all my fav sports photogs using sum cord going ? Ring side court side etc ? Is,this to a hd ? Seems faster ?

Brilliant!

I'm pretty OCD, but your workflow takes it to the next level. You also introduce some software that many of us probably haven't heard of. I'm planning to look up Photo Mechanic and Goodsync.

Huge thanks and best wishes!
J

Are familiar with ACDSee and Zone photo or on1raw? I believe they are the best options for scaled execution.

Ok, why don’t you name them effectively?

So, Photo Mechanic is nowhere near as useful after you've dumped your images off your card and onto the computer or external hard-drive? In other words, it only works the best at/during ingest? Is that correct?

How come you only need to connect your drives to Backblaze once a year? I thought it would delete your backup after 30-days, even if you have a 1-year version history. Can you please comment? Thanks!

spot on, really appreciate the no bs approach. Not one time did I feel like you were milking the video to fill the time requirement.

For backup I use amazon photos as a prime subscriber which has unlimited storage for JPG and Sony RAW files workmas well (don't know about Canon, Nikon etc) and also comes with a Windows software that can auto-backup your files

Does anyone use camera raw instead of lightroom? The programs are so similar

this one is really good, thank you!

This is so wrong! Photo editing involves sorting and culling. Processing is what photoshop does.

Your workflow looks similar to mine, including your naming conventions, etc. The video is right to the point. I didn't see Bridge in your workflow...? I wonder what your opinion of Bridge vs. Photo Mechanic is 2 years later, and whether it's still worth the money to buy Photo Mechanic?

Great video. One question: When you crop in photo mechanic is it a "destructive edit" or is the full picture preserved and can be un or re-cropped again?

Bridge is free

Photoshop should be used in a non destructive way (smart objects, camera raw filter, adjustment layers). Lightroom library works best if you stick to it with all imports and movements of files.

I am going thought a lot of workflows videos and this is the best one so far.

Kevin is so clear and direct. Amazing work!

Can you make a tutorial video series that breaks this process down and takes us step by step on how to do this? Or do you have any recommendations for existing courses that can teach this?

Do you have a video on your b lightroom export settings?

Excellent. You can use Adjustment Layers in Photoshop to do a non-destructive work but, no doubt, LR or even C1 are better, fast to change and all adjustments in one file, no need to save as Tiff or PSD.

Is there a free ingest and sorting software that can be used?

NOPE...using a smart object in Photoshop is non-destructive.

adobe camera raw through adobe photoshop is very much a parametric editor though