Not Finding my Strides with C18
I'm a loyalist and need your help to keep me here!!!!! I own this software.
I'm a high school senior and headshot photographer. I was a Aperture loyalist, migrated after year 2 without seeing a upgrade in the near future, and switched to Lightroom. I switched to C18 and love what it does to my RAW on ingest.
I'm really struggling to find how out to use this powerful tool fast enough. Will we get mobile app support? (it's been the future, which is why Adobe invested heavily years ago).
How do I get my strides for the long run
Lightroom workflow used to be:
Ingest: New Catalog with each shoot (keep RAWs in current location).
Cull: Find Crap shots (1 stars): Delete.
Rename Files
Cull: Find 4 stars (hit 4)
Cull Again: Find Best of the Best: 5 Stars (hit 5)
Editing Time: (Max 140 images for a seniors session and close to that for a headshot session)
Export: JPG100 300dpis, Web (with logo for website, social and blog)
Pretty straight forward. But as we all know Editing is the key. Lightroom I can edit a 140 Image senior session in just about 4 hours given the right show, movie or music in the background and stops to type in Messages 😊
Editing Process:
I've created Developing presets.
1) White Balance
2) Exposure
3)Contrast
4) Highlights Shadows
5) Sharpness
5) Clarity
6) Vignette (if I ever use 😊)
7) Black White with 7 options (HDR), High Contrast etc etc.
😎 Get rid of Skin imperfections or bags
9) Brushes: I've made 20 that I can use (like skin softening 40, 60, 70, 80 and 90), Dodging, Burning, Teeth, Sharpening, Clarity, Eye brushes) The lightroom skin softening element evens out the lighting on the face, smoothing the any hard transitions of shadows. (love it)
With the steps 1-7 Im able to get what I need - moves me fast. Step 8 & 9 is the most intense time consuming and where most my time and creative comes from.
Two biggest tasks for me are:
Heal Brush: Teenage girls skin, boys worse (usually). and even headshots both genders I have to get that face free of noticeable imperfections. (which puts the sample in the in the weirdest spots. and for each pimple or spot, you have to create a whole new layer. (so it seems)
Then I smoothen the skin without losing pore details., doesnt seem have adoption to pull back sharpness like Lightroom.
I know it's not lightroom, but let's be honest there are standards. I feel these should be a standard by now?
I do LOVE the Exporting (weird naming.. Recipes. LOL and Processing) #hipstermuch Nut I love being able to see my logo (even though it wont go smaller than 25% which drives me nuts cause I have then resize all may logos... (also making making a duplicate... umm ya.. that was a hard find.....
I'm a high school senior and headshot photographer. I was a Aperture loyalist, migrated after year 2 without seeing a upgrade in the near future, and switched to Lightroom. I switched to C18 and love what it does to my RAW on ingest.
I'm really struggling to find how out to use this powerful tool fast enough. Will we get mobile app support? (it's been the future, which is why Adobe invested heavily years ago).
How do I get my strides for the long run
Lightroom workflow used to be:
Ingest: New Catalog with each shoot (keep RAWs in current location).
Cull: Find Crap shots (1 stars): Delete.
Rename Files
Cull: Find 4 stars (hit 4)
Cull Again: Find Best of the Best: 5 Stars (hit 5)
Editing Time: (Max 140 images for a seniors session and close to that for a headshot session)
Export: JPG100 300dpis, Web (with logo for website, social and blog)
Pretty straight forward. But as we all know Editing is the key. Lightroom I can edit a 140 Image senior session in just about 4 hours given the right show, movie or music in the background and stops to type in Messages 😊
Editing Process:
I've created Developing presets.
1) White Balance
2) Exposure
3)Contrast
4) Highlights Shadows
5) Sharpness
5) Clarity
6) Vignette (if I ever use 😊)
7) Black White with 7 options (HDR), High Contrast etc etc.
😎 Get rid of Skin imperfections or bags
9) Brushes: I've made 20 that I can use (like skin softening 40, 60, 70, 80 and 90), Dodging, Burning, Teeth, Sharpening, Clarity, Eye brushes) The lightroom skin softening element evens out the lighting on the face, smoothing the any hard transitions of shadows. (love it)
With the steps 1-7 Im able to get what I need - moves me fast. Step 8 & 9 is the most intense time consuming and where most my time and creative comes from.
Two biggest tasks for me are:
Heal Brush: Teenage girls skin, boys worse (usually). and even headshots both genders I have to get that face free of noticeable imperfections. (which puts the sample in the in the weirdest spots. and for each pimple or spot, you have to create a whole new layer. (so it seems)
Then I smoothen the skin without losing pore details., doesnt seem have adoption to pull back sharpness like Lightroom.
I know it's not lightroom, but let's be honest there are standards. I feel these should be a standard by now?
I do LOVE the Exporting (weird naming.. Recipes. LOL and Processing) #hipstermuch Nut I love being able to see my logo (even though it wont go smaller than 25% which drives me nuts cause I have then resize all may logos... (also making making a duplicate... umm ya.. that was a hard find.....
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Well, except for (8), all of these are very straightforward and streamlined steps in C1 and the workflow should move over directly. In many can can customise the keyboard shortcuts to make this feel more like Lightroom. Unfortunately, it takes time to learn where things are in C1 and there are few shortcuts.
The main difficulty with your workflow comes from C1's layer implementation. This is a lot less flexible than in Lightroom - it works ok for things like selective sharpening or smoothing, but is extremely limiting compared to Adobe if you need many small differing adjustments or usable cloning/healing.
Currently I use C1 for catalogue management, general editing and local adjustments - but pass the images through Photoshop if any cloning or healing is needed.0
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