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Thu Apr 24

i need help.

just a fair warning…if you aren’t a photographer, you won’t give a crap about this post. feel free to leave a sarcastic comment or something, or just move along to something you might find far more interesting :)

i have this little workflow problem that i have run into lately. well…it’s not exactly a problem, it’s more like a old lady neighbor that is always telling you to turn the music down- life still goes on, but you always wonder what it would be like if she wasn’t around.

anyway… so here is my dilemna:

there is this battle in my mind on how to obtain the most effecient workflow possible. soooo many people rave about aperture and lightroom, but im not sure im totally sold. over the past few months i’ve been using a little concoction of a workflow that nate from the image is found introduced me to (plus a few tweaks of my own). it uses photomechanic, plus bridge and my own file system. so far i like it.

but with so many people raving about aperture and lightroom, i feel like i must be missing out on something grandeur or something.

over the past few months i’ve experimented with the new versions of both apps. here’s my quick conclusions:

- lightroom is seriously sexy. i love the layout, panels, feel, etc. and it has a much better dual monitor support than aperture, which is a must have for me.

-lightroom has great plug-in support (although i’m not sure i would use it much)

-so far i’m a bit more pleased with aperture’s file system layout

-lightroom has the exact same camera raw system as photoshop which i find to be much better than aperture

-my HUGE problem is that it is a serious pain in the rear to move a single event to an external hard drive so that i can work from a laptop. even if i simply reference my master files from my own file system, it is super goofy trying to move the images to an external drive, open them on a laptop in the app and then move them back. everytime you have to re-import the files. i’ve tried with both apps, and sometimes my adjustments wouldn’t show up, or my .psd files weren’t there.

-my other problem with both of them is that when you send a file to photoshop to edit, you have to save back to the app to export that file into seperate places or as seperate file types (i can’t simply export from photoshop as a .jpg to another location, without doing so from the app) i know why they do it this way (file sizes, etc.) but that doesn’t mean i have to like it.

at this point, if i had to choose one, it would for sure be lightroom (sorry brian, don’t be mad at me). i love its layout, shortcuts, dual monitor support, speed, and user friendly batch processing. but that’s only if i can be convinced that it’s worth switching to.

so here is my question:

what are you using for your workflow, and is it so worth using that you would die for it (not literally)?

so all you other photographers come on out of that closet of yours and help a brother out…

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