In those addresses you may find information about what is the digital work flow. In Brief, its the process for manipulate a digital picture usually in RAW format.
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In those addresses you may find information about what is the digital work flow. In Brief, its the process for manipulate a digital picture usually in RAW format.
You lost me on this one.
Doug
Most on this site start with a Raw file and "convert" it to a common format, like TIFF, JPEG, etc. During that process they apply adjustments to achieve what's in their mind's eye. The work flow actually begins in-camera with exposure decisions, cropping, etc. One common in-camera adjustment is to ETTR (Expose To The Right -- of the histogram) rendering an unadjusted Raw file that may look washed out, but actually contains more data than an image exposed as if were film. In Raw conversion, the ETTR image is normalized to get to a properly exposed end result. ETTR will result in less noise in shadows, more shadow detail, but at the risk of blowing out important highlights, which should be avoided. Of course, there are all kinds of other adjustments that are part of our workflows. I have Preset menus that may apply many adjustments to all my images being processed in a batch. I'll then look at each image to fine tune. Some of us stop there, but many go on into programs, such as PS, to make even more dramatic changes or enhancements.
A digital workflow is the step and procedures one uses to capture and prepare a digital image from camera to finale output. While there is a standard workflow one most use to produce an image not every photographers workflow will be the same as most will develop their own set of steps depending on their vision and knowledge of processing.Here is my standard workflow for processing a Raw file before sending it to PS to be finished.
In ACR I do the following adjustments if needed in the following order
Choose which camera profile I will use base on the image
Lens correction
color temp adjustment if needed
Exposure adjustment if needed
Highlights and white adjustments if needed
Black point and shadow adjustments if needed
Clarity usually +20
Vibrance Usually +20
Saturation rarely nedded
Capture sharpening I usually use the default setting but always use the masking slider to only apply sharpening to the subject never the BG
Export to PS as a PSD
In PS I will do I loose initial crop if needed then move on to my localize adjustments which I do with layers an average image will have 4 to 8 layers once I have the image the way I want it I save as a PSD file with all layers active. Once saved I will do a finale crop and down size for the web its at this stage that I will apply any NR if needed again using a layer and only on the BG and finish the image with sharpening on another layer and also only on the subject at no stage do I globally sharpen my images. Now I am ready to save for the web as a Jpeg. Now if you're using a Lightroom only workflow use the brushes to apply NR and sharpening locally at the end of your workflow along with your adjustments if needed I would also save a none cropped master file as a Tiff or PSD file
Don Lacy
You don't take a photograph, you make it - Ansel Adams
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs - Ansel Adams
http://lacy.smugmug.com/
Don I reckon my workflow is almost identical to yours, I will look again at the Vibrance setting, normally I set mine to 3 so I will check out the higher setting you employ. Regards sharpening I use Philip Perold technique but I have modified it for differing sized web sized images eg 1200px, 900px and 1400px
