Do you all do batch processing of images or individually image-edit in Photoshop? I love digital but the post processing is killing me! Maybe my Pentium 3, 1GHz, 378MB RAM is too slow for my Canon 8MP DSLR?
Take this typical scenario:
You come back from a fantastic 3 weeks overseas trip. With you are literally 1000 images, in 8MP RAW format (!!), thanks to the portable storage device you brought along.
Back home, the nightmare begins (for me at least!). You have all the 1000 images. But you know in the end, only 300 or 400 are keepers perhaps. When you view the RAW images on thumbnails, sometimes you need to open them to see if the images are blurred, or if your friends had their eyes closed. As I click to select the image to open, it takes several long seconds. Sometimes you got to open 3 consecutive images to check which image has better tonal range preserved. This takes time again.
Then comes the headache. After conversion from RAW, you got to decide what to touch up. Crop? Adjust colors since white balance is never perfect? Sharpening? But different images require different amounts of sharpening. Batch processing sounds tempting as a compromise but it'll never gonna work well overall, I foresee. Also, the contrast and sharpness of my images suck when I use RAW to shoot on the Canon DSLR, possibly worse than a much cheaper $600 digicam!
I can imagine doing individual editing for the first 10, 20, 30 images. But for literally hundreds of images from a trip, gosh, by the 30th image, my enthusiasm just wanes down... and till date, I still have my thousands of images from Europe, Korea and US trips that took place 2-3 years ago still unsettled! I'm working so everyday I have only 1-2 hours per night to fiddle with photo-editing.
In the past, with films, the shop conveniently did the color adjustments, sharpening with ePic printing... Send the 30 rolls of films in today, within 1-2 days time can collect. Just need check the prints, admire the quality. My only job is to slot them into the albums! All can be done in less than a week! With digital processing, it's been years... Argghh!!
Sigh... What's the best solution? :bheart:
Thanks for any suggestion/advice...
Take this typical scenario:
You come back from a fantastic 3 weeks overseas trip. With you are literally 1000 images, in 8MP RAW format (!!), thanks to the portable storage device you brought along.
Back home, the nightmare begins (for me at least!). You have all the 1000 images. But you know in the end, only 300 or 400 are keepers perhaps. When you view the RAW images on thumbnails, sometimes you need to open them to see if the images are blurred, or if your friends had their eyes closed. As I click to select the image to open, it takes several long seconds. Sometimes you got to open 3 consecutive images to check which image has better tonal range preserved. This takes time again.
Then comes the headache. After conversion from RAW, you got to decide what to touch up. Crop? Adjust colors since white balance is never perfect? Sharpening? But different images require different amounts of sharpening. Batch processing sounds tempting as a compromise but it'll never gonna work well overall, I foresee. Also, the contrast and sharpness of my images suck when I use RAW to shoot on the Canon DSLR, possibly worse than a much cheaper $600 digicam!
I can imagine doing individual editing for the first 10, 20, 30 images. But for literally hundreds of images from a trip, gosh, by the 30th image, my enthusiasm just wanes down... and till date, I still have my thousands of images from Europe, Korea and US trips that took place 2-3 years ago still unsettled! I'm working so everyday I have only 1-2 hours per night to fiddle with photo-editing.
In the past, with films, the shop conveniently did the color adjustments, sharpening with ePic printing... Send the 30 rolls of films in today, within 1-2 days time can collect. Just need check the prints, admire the quality. My only job is to slot them into the albums! All can be done in less than a week! With digital processing, it's been years... Argghh!!
Sigh... What's the best solution? :bheart:
Thanks for any suggestion/advice...