Introduction:
Where do you start when processing your images? I will give your my work flow with an important tip.
Work Flow:
1. Save images on Raid 1 Hard drive array
2. Process images in DXO for numerous corrections and enhancements. See DXO for list. This also includes sharpening and WB +
3. Time for Lightroom to review and cull
4. Time to process in Photoshop.
Photoshop Processing:
1. Crop image. Use content-aware fill to remove or enhance image composition
2. Remove flash shine on faces. Sometime you can't bounce the flash and even with bouncing and umbrellas, the oils and sweat on faces can leave a shine. This does NOT look good and must be removed.
How to remove flash shine:
1. You can use the adjustment brush in Lightroom, or
2. The healing brush in Photoshop to each image.
All of the above can be very time consuming. Here is a faster and easier way.
3. You can use the plugin: Shine off. This plugin does two things. It removes the shine and gives a better skin tone to the faces. It also removes some shine from spill flash onto shiny objects. On the hidden side, it helps to correct your histogram posterization.
Posterization occurs or is seen when you have white gaps and peaks in your histogram. We have a plugin to help heal this also, but this plugin works a bit better. Posterization normally occurs from 8 bit tools. We recommend using 16 bit tools when ever possible to avoid this.
Masters-Tip: Use Shine-Off to remove the flash shine on faces to speed up your image processing time
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