The wedding of last week-end ended wth about 150 shots from my wife's new Sony bridge and 300 from my Canon 20D. See my post with the links:
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That was a good opportunity to compare the speed and ease of editing of the jpegs and raws. Those photos were meant to be a complement to the (good) official photographer's reportage and formals. No need to use advanced editing, just global adjustments such as those in the ACR version of PSE6. I wanted to get the galleries for the web, then send a CD with a low res set for display and a high res one for printing.
That's what I did.
1- Monday: imported all jpegs and raws in the organizer.
2- I spent several hours culling, tagging and rating all photos
3- I left the computer do an incremental backup of my catalog by night.
4- Tuesday: Nearly all photos needed some adjustment or cropping, daylight shots had very contrasty lights and shadows, artificial light was fluorescent or coloured spots... I started with the editing of the jpegs from the Sony. From the organizer I selected all two stars rating photos, and saved them in a new directory after editing. With my old computer, that took me about one minute per photo. Then, also from the organizer, I copied the selected raw files to a new directory, and started editing with ACR, without opening in PSE, just clicking 'done' to save the settings to the xmp sidecar files. I was happy to use the multiple editing feature available in the PSe6 version of ACR when there was 3 to 6 photos with the same lighting. I could adjust the lighting for the all batch, then crop/straighten each one before clicking 'done'. This feature compensated for the longer time needed to load the raw files in ACR, so that it took me also one minute per photo.
5- I used PSE6 multiple file editing to batch edit the 400 or so photos for the next night. With my slow computer, that accounted for about 7 hours... But my low resolution set was ready on Wednesday morning, and it was not long to create the web galleries in Elements and upload them to my site.
6- On Wednesday night, I did the same batch to get the high resolution set. I could burn both version to CD and send them to the family. They should have received it tomorrow (Saturday).
I think I could have done much better with a more powerful and recent computer. I don't know about the difference of speed between ACR in Elements and Lightroom. The most obvious way for me to save one day would have been to use my wife's laptop to process the second night batch the same night.. I'll think about it next time.
Summary: be it jpeg or raw, one minute editing per photo. Then a little more for nightly batch editing.
viewtopic.php?f=15&t=4005
That was a good opportunity to compare the speed and ease of editing of the jpegs and raws. Those photos were meant to be a complement to the (good) official photographer's reportage and formals. No need to use advanced editing, just global adjustments such as those in the ACR version of PSE6. I wanted to get the galleries for the web, then send a CD with a low res set for display and a high res one for printing.
That's what I did.
1- Monday: imported all jpegs and raws in the organizer.
2- I spent several hours culling, tagging and rating all photos
3- I left the computer do an incremental backup of my catalog by night.
4- Tuesday: Nearly all photos needed some adjustment or cropping, daylight shots had very contrasty lights and shadows, artificial light was fluorescent or coloured spots... I started with the editing of the jpegs from the Sony. From the organizer I selected all two stars rating photos, and saved them in a new directory after editing. With my old computer, that took me about one minute per photo. Then, also from the organizer, I copied the selected raw files to a new directory, and started editing with ACR, without opening in PSE, just clicking 'done' to save the settings to the xmp sidecar files. I was happy to use the multiple editing feature available in the PSe6 version of ACR when there was 3 to 6 photos with the same lighting. I could adjust the lighting for the all batch, then crop/straighten each one before clicking 'done'. This feature compensated for the longer time needed to load the raw files in ACR, so that it took me also one minute per photo.
5- I used PSE6 multiple file editing to batch edit the 400 or so photos for the next night. With my slow computer, that accounted for about 7 hours... But my low resolution set was ready on Wednesday morning, and it was not long to create the web galleries in Elements and upload them to my site.
6- On Wednesday night, I did the same batch to get the high resolution set. I could burn both version to CD and send them to the family. They should have received it tomorrow (Saturday).
I think I could have done much better with a more powerful and recent computer. I don't know about the difference of speed between ACR in Elements and Lightroom. The most obvious way for me to save one day would have been to use my wife's laptop to process the second night batch the same night.. I'll think about it next time.
Summary: be it jpeg or raw, one minute editing per photo. Then a little more for nightly batch editing.