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Here goes: Everybody take aim; I'll take notes.

Workflow – Post-Shoot (windoze user)

Overhead Process—

1. Copy images from SD card(s) to new folder with appropriate name, verify.
2. Delete unwanted images (hah!)
3. Copy remaining files to backup and off-site backup disks.
4. Calibrate the screen (I use the Pantone Huey, at $75)

5. Get beverage, music, take off shoes

Image Processing—

6. Scan the jpegs using ACDSee viewer, note the images to work on. (could be all remaining from a shoot)
7. Make note of images that contain WhiBal cards.
8. Load C1, check to see if appropriate profile is loaded, e.g., Edmund’s Linear Lo Sat. [In C1, I have a setting to append –LinLoSat to processed tiffs.]
9. Bring up the image with the WhiBal card that applies to next set of images to be processed. Do the WB and save this setting for use on subsequent images.
10. Bring up the set of images that match this WB setting, apply WB to all.
11. For each, crop, set exposure and/or curve, focus, and add to the process box (causes changes to be made and tiff to be filed).
12. I have C1 set to invoke ACDSee as the viewer for each image processed. Review the results of the image.
13. Bring up PSCS2 to process these images further – I might do some more curve manipulation, use iCorrect (color balancing), and always use Neat Image (these latter two are PS add-in’s.

Note: during the processing of an image, I save it at various stages, as follows:
1. C1 gives me a tiff as the final file. It is called L100…xxx-LinLoSat, in the case when Edmund’s LoSat profile has been used.
2. In PS, I save if I:
a. crop again
b. after applying image changes like curves
c. after applying noise reduction
and I add more suffixes to the file name to indicate what operation was applied. For example, “crop” or “crv” or “-ntpp” (reflects the version of Neat Image I am using, currently NeaTimage Plus Pro, or something like that)

Further Overhead Process—

1. Remove other files judged less than Nobel Prize quality or that Ansel wouldn’t have shown
2. Backup to secondary and tertiary (off-site) disks.

3. Refresh beverage, as necessary.

4. Review disk capacity, order new LaCie hard disk, as necessary.