My Post Photoshoot Workflow! Organise Files, Editing & Photo Backups!
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- Hey guys! I wanted to take your through my photography workflow - so everything that happens AFTER a photoshoot. I go through how I organise my files, how I backup my photos and take you through each photo editing program I use including Photo Mechanic, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Bridge and Photoshop.
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Thank you so much for watching! xx
Thanks for this, it seems not many photographers want to share this kind if in depth detail and it's something I have been struggling with for awhile.
I feel like I randomly stumbled upon photography one day. I've been shooting and editing photos that I'm proud of ever since, but I have continuously struggled to have an efficient workflow. Its turned something that I once enjoyed into a chore. Overwhelming storage space issues, competitive deadlines, and slow downloads have seriously made me want to distance myself from it. However, this video is a step in the right direction for me. It's incredibly helpful and gives me hope that I can take my work to the next level. This is info every photographer needs to know, yet it is hard to come by! Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to share your expertise
This is the absolute best video of this process. Thank you so very much. As a newbie this is amazing.
This is the most helpful video I’ve seen for beginning photography.
Wish my life was this organised haha. Very good video, thank you! 😀👌🏼
My files are organised but I didn't say anything about my life 😂😅
Here I was thinking I had a good workflow... You opened my eyes to a much cleaner & more efficient way to do Post. This video is full of useful info. Thanks, Julia!
Best workflow/backup video I have seen so far !
Thank you!
Very helpful, thanks for walking through the whole process!
Julia, I always had Photoshop as my favorite. But I tried Lightroom last week because I had a bunch of pictures to edit and I thought it was going to be faster - and it really was. Then I also used Photoshop only to retouch this time and the final results really pleased me. Thanks for your tips!
Thank you! I'm so glad to hear that :)
@@juliatrotti thanks for this great video. is Photo Mechanic really that much faster for culling than using LR? so you keep all your current edit projects on the ssd 'working drive' and backup everything to the hard drive? do you keep the ssd working drive until it's full, then store it away?
@@juliatrotti can't you just import the 'select' folder into LR instead of having a separate 'Lightroom' folder? just curious as to why you need both folders
excellent video! Some good solid info. I would like to add a word of warning though for those that use traditional external hard drives. By that I mean the ones that have spinning platters. That type of external hard drive is still a hard drive and subject to failure just as if it was in your computer. I would warn against using it as your sole backup. I have friends that had issues with those kind of external drives. Sometimes it is just the power supply and if you remove the drive from the case you can still retrieve your files. If its the hard drive itself now you're talking file recovery and that can be expensive. Bottom line: it is best to have your files on more than one hard drive.
Thanks again for an excellent video 🙂
Thank you so much for the video ,you are one of the few Australia photographers that inspire me
James Cao Thank you so much!
Your videos are amazing and straight to the point. I am learning so much from you. Thank you!!!
Thank you Julia ! Super useful for me !! 🙂🙏
I just had a friend use your video to make an infographic to help young creators! I now use this file system for all of my personal and professional work as well!
Can I get access to that infographic somehow?? Thanks!
thanks for telling about your workflow.I am a beginner and struggle with file management.loved to see how professionals like you work!Thanks😁
Great video Julia, This will make things much better for me going forward.
LOVE THIS SIMPLISTIC AND SMART FILE MANAGEMENT!
Thanks for sharing this video. Really helped me figure out how to organise and backup my photos!
I fell in love with your model! She is flawless!
thanks this is fantastic and going to make some changes to declutter my workflow and overfull back up drives.
Very good. Now I will watch again and take notes.
Thank you so much for this video. It helped me a lot! I'm still new in the business and constantly learning helpful things. I'd be really interested in your pre-photoshoot routine! It would be awesome if you could make a video on this topic.
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it. That's an awesome suggestion, I would love to make a video about that! 💛
Thanks for the information. I might suggest looking into GoodSync to automate some of your workflow. I use to to copy newly added folders to both my external drive and NAS.
This was soooo helpful. I love your videos Julia!!!
Thank you for sharing this. I really like the way you name your folders. I will use your method from now on. Thanks again. Have a great day,
Thank you!
Loved this tutorial .Exactly what I been looking for to help me organise the photos and editing process. :) Love your channel too. :)
This is an awesome video! Thank you so much for taking the time to put this together. I've been trying to find some kind of flow that doesn't set me back too much after a shoot. I love this, extremely helpful. Subscribed!
Great video, you’re an amazing photographer, Julia. Thank you and congrats!
this video is gold, organization is a must!
Wow! very interesting workflow. Thanks a lot
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it :)
Very useful tips ! Thanks!
This was really helpful. honestly not so many of us wanna share this kind of information. Thankyou. That preset of yours though, ad love to use it on my images as well.
Just finished my first wedding, thank you so much for this :)
Hi Julia! Thanks so much for this video. As I’ve said in several of my other comments, you’re truly amazing and such a great and organized teacher. You’re my favorite You Tube photographer along with Joe Edelman. This video is an answer to so many prayers for those who need to be taken by the hand (as I do) and walked through all of these different steps. I admire how computer savvy you are and how you can make what seems sometimes as daunting to where it now can be understood, or at least way more than before.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it!!
Finally I found a really good video 🥲
Absolutely love your workflow. Perfect for what I am needing to implement! Thanks for sharing! :)
Awesome video, Julia!! Liked the way you backup your photos especially your labeling scheme. Also, thanks for the tip regarding the catalog! made a huge difference in my workflow speed. :)
Thank you so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed it :)
Great video Julia, do you still use photo mechanic in 2022 for sorting through images or another program?
I love your accent ! It makes this tutorial a lot more calm and entertaining. Great information !
Thank you so much!
So helpful! thank you so much
Thank you. I always seem to forget a step along the way. This was really helpful.
Thanks for sharing, absolutely helpful! Wondering if you could do a video of a wedding behind the scenes or how you move about at a wedding during each part (ceremony, getting ready, reception) and even your camera settings/ lenses you typically use for those scenarios! I have wedding inquiries and a couple coming up this summer and could use some insight along with second shooting. Thanks!!
Thank you so much! I don't think I'll be able to make a behind the scenes video from a wedding like my typical photoshoots as I don't want to take anything away from the couple on their day! But I actually will have a bunch of wedding related videos and tutorials coming up really soon which I'm really excited to share :D
Thank you SO much for sharing all this, it´s really helpful!!
informative and simple, thank you so much julia
Thank you 💛
Amalifi looks great. Thx
Great workflow and video. Thanks so much sharing!
Thank you!
While I don't do a lot of editing, I really appreciate your organization and plan to work on developing a similar organization for my photos. Thanks for your presentation!
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed watching :)
Julia Trotti you're very welcome!
Found your channel yesterday and I'm absolutely in love with your content!
Yay! Thank you so much!
Extremely helpful and insightful video! thank you!
Thank you!
Hi Julia. Can you tell us which NAS you are using nowadays for backing up? Greetings from Holland!
Amazing video.. thank you 🙏🙏🙏
Thank youuuu!!! Very usefuul!!
I want to give more than just one thumbs up!!
1 - I have a very slow laptop and I am REEEAALLLYYY Strugling to select pictures. (after one morning of surf shooting, 650 pictures, I spent almost 3 hours selecting just because the pc was slow to change and load picture). I'll try adobe bridge for it now.
2 - My pictures folders is just a mess. It is difficult to find specific pictures. Loved how you organize. I'll be doing it now.
If you have any more ideas about optmizing workflow, please share!
Good stuff! I'll be using some of your workflow from now on, so thank you!
Thank you! Glad to hear it :D
Great video! What SSD and Hard Drive do you use? Thank you for this walkthrough
Thanks Julia - that was really helpful :)
I had never considered my workflow post shoot and was wondering if I was doing something wrong. I am apparently on the right track but have some great suggestions now for how to preview my photos (I was using Windows photo viewer and a legal pad to write down the ones I wanted to send to post. A bit tedious). Thanks for sharing! One of the things most don’t consider is what happens between the time when the camera goes in the bag and when the “photoshop stuff” happens. I am sure you have helped a lot of folks with this video.
Very useful thanks Julia! I like the look of your SSD, can you tell me the make? Also as this video is a couple years old is your workflow the same and would you ever use cloud storage as an option? 😺
Hi Julia. I'm planning to buy an iMac. I was thinking of buying the 2019 version but I would like to know the spec and year of your iMac so I can just get what you have. Thank you love your work always
Get a PC.
if you do pick up an iMac dont get the upgraded ram size from Apple. Spent the additional $$$ on the vega Graphics card upgrade. Get the 8gb ram and order ram on amazon (corsair etc). You can get 4 X 16gb ram cards for $200 and then you can install them yourself (the ram door is accessible behind the mac by the stand)
I recently swapped from my macbook to a XPS 15 (which turned out to be a nightmare and kept failing first few days after getting it). I returned it and now will be building a PC but I also was looking at possibly getting back into Apple. but for 2300 (taxes applied) I can have a pretty spec'd out PC with killer CPU, RAM, Graphics card etc while the iMac is 3100 (w/applecare and tax applied)
Hey Julia, very useful video, in process of implementing as fairly new to the whole file organisation (currently an absolute mess!). Any recommendations on SSD's or what hardware two you use for backup?
I loved this! Thank you! I was wondering if you could make a video on how you archive your lightroom catalog? I see you created a new catalog but didn't show how you archived it into that folder and deleted that from your lightroom and computer? Thank you!
Thank you! The Lightroom catalogue gets archived when the rest of the folders move to my NAS when I don’t need them anymore. Once they’re not on the original HD anymore, it won’t pop up in your recents Lightroom list.
This is clutch! Thank you!
Your workflow is such an eye opener...
Many thanks for the tip of creating catalog for each photoshoot i/o importing all into 1 catalog.
My Lightroom is running so slow, I think this will be life changing! :D .. Ps. I really enjoy your vids
Thank you! Yeah I used to import everything into one catalogue as well.. when I started photographing weddings, I learnt really quickly that it wasn't going to work too well with thousands of images being added in every single week :D I hope this new method helps!
This is so helpful. I wonder do you have a link to the type of hard drives you use? Thanks
Great video. Which SSD do you use? Do use the same brand for the larger capacity as well?
This video really helped me, hopefully I can be more organised after it! What settings do you export your images at I couldn't really see properly, it would be a massive help to me, thanks!
Wow! Super organised. You would probably faint if you saw my system.
I’m about to jump in a high school year photo session because the photographer can’t make it. I am not a professional so learning this workflow is going to make it waaaaaay more easy for me. Thanks!
this was so helpful, thank you so much! And I loved your preset that you used
Thank you!!
Once you've retouched the images in PS, how do you export them to Dropbox to do this? And what are your export settings for both the highres and lowres images? This is probably the best video I have seen on a general editing workflow. I have made some notes and plan to follow this to the tee! Thanks!
Thank you so much! I export the highre JPGS from Lightroom (the export settings for that are in this video), then once I've retouched in PS, I flatten and resave them as a JPG with quality 12. Those are the highres images that I upload. Then for the lowres, I just resize the images to 1920 pixels on the longest side, 300dpi :)
Awesome, thanks! Really love your channel. Only discovered it quite recently but definitely one of the most resourceful as I shoot similar stuff to you. Loved your shoot in Poznan! Brought back fond memories as I've spent a lot of time there. :-)
When you do the lowres resizing, do you do that in PS or LR. I'm very comfortable with exporting/resizing in LR but only just getting into PS.
Thank you :D For wedding photos I lowres resize in Lightroom as I don't do any Photoshop retouching on my images - only Lightroom edits. For my fashion photos where I do retouch in Photoshop, I use Bridge to batch resize the lowres images!
Hi Julia, thank you so much for this video, got heaps out of it! I'm a little late to the party sorry, but do you mean you are exporting from LR a highre JPG then opening it up in PS to retouch? As in, you are retouching a JPG and not a raw file? Also, is your final highre export out of PS/Br sufficient for jobs intended for print? Thank you for sharing so much of your knowledge x
Awesome video, Julia! Thanks. Really - really useful infos! Thanks a great lot! Love your channel and style btw. ;)
Thank you so much!
I like it, I have almost exactly the same routine after a shoot but I definitely think I'm going to try the idea about using separate catalogs.
Thank you! I used to put everything in the one catalogue when I first started as well, it ended up getting so confusing! Especially when your harddrive fills up and you have to start moving files.. eventually half the photos in the catalogue are "missing". Hope you enjoy the new method if you end up trying it :)
Great tutorial! When do you delete files from your SD/CF card? Right after import, or when inserting into the camera?
I usually format my cards the night before a shoot! I like to keep them on my card for as long as possible :)
Hey! Thank you so much for making this! Do you replace your hardrives every few years? (Since hardrives are supposed to fail every 3 - 5 years)
Hello Julia, thanks for this very interesting insight. I understand the idea of one LR catalog per project to increase the speed of workflow but in this case you lose the ability to look through photos of different projects AT THE SAME TIME..eg if you want to look all "smiles", or "cars" or whatever tags you can insert in LR...When my catalog became too big I splitted it in a few smaller ones ( France including my family and social events, Asia etc...for example, I find it pleasant to be able to scroll among all my chinese pictures in one catalog. Of course everybody has to find the best way to sort his pictures and catalogs...just my 2 cents and congrats for all your videos and tips !
Thank you so much for this video! Really helps me out. I still have a question though: do you keep your blurry or dark pictures? Do you erase them in your camera first, before importing? Thanks!
Hi Julia! Love the video! I have been struggling lately keeping track of the files I import, edit, and deliver to clients. Mostly prioritizing which folders to edit first.
Nice way to save your pics 😍❤️
thanks for the detailed video
I run a Windows PC and a Macbook Pro and have been debating on getting between extra internal or external hard drives. External would be ideal since I could edit on either machine. Where do you keep/store all your external HDDs/SSDs?
Love your content... Would you please let me know what nas drive you use to organise your backup?
hello! this video was super enlightening and helpful! do you delete the photos off the SD card or keep them there and constantly get new SD cards? also, do you delete any bad photos before backing up all the raw files from the shoot? thanks in advance 😊
Thanks, you are really smart girl! Great and useful video
Hi Julia, thanks a lot for the video! Can you make a video about adobe bridge? how you sort them and edit later in photoshop? thanks for sharing!
Hello, how you got your hard drive setup? I see you have 6 black and 1 white. What’s the model of them? Are they in a holder?
Thanks this is a good video, I use a similar workflow for culling and cataloging my photos, but I am hesitant about keeping one LR catalog per photo shoot. I think the LR catalog structure works well for large amounts of photos. Watching fragmentation and the right performance options. Having so many catalogs can be a maintenance hassle.
I have a question: After you EXPORT the photos to share with your clients do you re-catalog those photos back again into LR?
Thanks again for this great video; there are few about this subject. Cheers
I think it depends on your workflow really! I usually only work on editing 1-3 sessions at a time, once I'm finished I back up that catalogue and literally never have the need to open it again. For my personal work - I do film photography where I process the negatives in Lightroom - I have one catalogue for everything because I do revisit older photos frequently. So it all depends! And no, I don't put the exported files back into Lightroom personally.
@@juliatrotti thanks julia for taking the time to respond. Cheers.
Simple and easy to follow excellent thx
Nice workflow ! I tried to transfer my photos from the SSD to a cloud storage like Dropbox but it takes like 2 hours to complete for 40 high res photos. Is it the same for you ?
This is great for one day shoots. If you are making a new catalog for each folder then how do you handle multi-day travel photoshoots? I have photos from several trips to Italy over 6 years. How do you propose to handle something like this where you want to organize and see all my Italy trips at once?
Hey Julia, is the SSD actually a NAS? And then you back up to just a regular HDD? If not, what SSD do you use to work out of?
This tutorial was very helpful and your work is amazing #inspiration
Do you shoot in RAW + JPEG or only RAW? Thank you for this helpful insight to your work 😊
really really helpful. Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks to your video I am going to begin implementing a similar strategy that will finally get my photos backed up and organized in an efficient manner. One question I have is do you ever delete any photos or do you keep everything you shoot just in case. Thanks again. Looking forward to seeing your future videos.
Glad you found it helpful! I personally keep everything because I don't want to accidentally delete anything I shouldn't, etc but I also know photographers who keep their selects and delete everything else. I honestly very very rarely need to go into the archives to grab a raw photo for a past client :)
This is just what I needed. My current system of backup is cluttered. This is such an easier way. Couple of quick questions. Do you save the psd file? What kind of hdd system do you have to have it all plugged in?
Thank you, I'm glad this was helpful! I used to save the psd file but after a few months I realised I literally NEVER go back to re-edit anything, so I only save the final jpg now. Of course this is just personal preference and suites the way I work, you could try saving the psd at first to see if you ever go back/need them in the future and then get rid of that step from your workflow if you don't end up using them like me :) I use a few Synology NAS with WD reds.
This is very helpful - Thanks for sharing Julia!
Do you add keywords and metadata to your photos? At which stage (deselects, selects, lightroom, exports) do you do it and which software do you use? Thanks
Thank you! I add copyright info (just my website link) to the images when I export them in Lightroom :)
Hi Julia, I have been learning so much from you. So...a big thank you!
I do have few questions - is Photoshop retouching an important step to finish the image?
Can a professional shoot ‘not include’ retouching?
What are the pros and cons or retouching?
Thank you.
Thank you! That's a really big question to be honest. Realistically there is no right and wrong with your workflow, it all depends on what kind of photography you do, how your market yourself and your work, what your clients are after, etc!
Julia Trotti Thank you.
Hey! great video as usually! :) . One question, could you be compromising some future actions, like sharing files, or your folder directory engine, or something related with your OS and things that I don't have so much knowledge about, when you name folders with periods and special characters?
Thank you!
HI! This video is amazing! so helpful..What ssd and hard drives do you use?
Hi Julia,
I really love all of your videos and I'm learning from you everytime I watched something from you :-)
I've just a little question about your workflow: Is it unchanged since when you made the video? Or do you changed something? I'm curious and would love it to see an updated video ;-)
Love from Switzerland,
Abhijit
Thanks for sharing, Do yo recommend editing JPG in photoshop instead of RAW files?