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I tend to be rather minimalist in my post-processing, but I'm curious as to what PP people use most often. I've listed mine below here in order of prevalence (the higher on the list, the more often I use it). If you post your own lists, please mention what camera you use as I think it would be interesting to see whether there's some techniques used more with certain cameras than others.

Here's mine, for the E-510:
  1. Cropping
  2. Noise Removal (noise ninja)
  3. Subtle contrast and lighting (curves)
  4. Colour/white balance correction
  5. Rotate canvas to straighten the horizon
  6. Slight desaturation of the greens
What's yours?
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Rotate acccording to actual orientation when photo was taken, Auto Levels, auto contrast are mandatory.

Color adjustment to make colors punchier almost all the time, though not on all photos

I do straighten horizons, but only when necessary.

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DanC said:
spinrahardjo said:
Auto Levels, auto contrast are mandatory.
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DanC said:
You're leaving a lot on the table if you're using auto levels/contrast. Manual adjustments can be so fine tuned so as that they can make or break your photo.
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Yes. I fully agree with that. But most of the time, i have 2000-3000 photos at hand (usually after an event), and must trim into 80-100 selected photos. Thus, creating an batch of autos is the viable option.

After that, the photos are revisited, assorted, some manual changes done, but only for selected ones.

I work as an IT guy on weekdays, and many times it require me to stay till late at the office, while photography is my part time job, usually on weekends. Still, I need to deliver my output to my photography clients usually within 2 weeks, while OTOH, I ofteh got home too late in the evening already, leaving only a short time each days for me to do the edits.

Yes, I'm longing for the moment I can make photography my main living. Not yet possible for now, I still earn more from IT than from photography. :D

Cheers :)

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Look through images, sort, reject and rate.

And then further only on the 4 and 5 stars :
  • correct horizon if necessary
  • crop if necessary
  • look into WB if necessary
  • tweak exposure if necessary
  • quick slides on black level, contrast, brightness, clarity and vibrance
  • hardly ever (0,5 % of all cases) : nosie removal or sharpening
  • never distortion correction : it is part of the game to have distortion
  • for selected images the quest continues with other colour treatments, B&W etc.
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For my E-510:

I sometimes work on the RAW file if the DR is very high with clipped highlights in the JPEG.

For JPEGs, I usually do the following for most shots:
1. Maybe align horizon and then crop, otherwise just crop
2. Quick curves adjustment, maybe only some "auto levels" (I'm lazy)

3. Additional contrast and then custom b&w conversion, some more contrast in the b&w (I do a lot of b&w)
4. Maybe some vibrance or selective colour saturation
5. Frame, resize and then a bit of USM

That's my usual workflow. For additional work before resizing:
6. Sometimes a bit of shadow lifting
7. Sometimes a bit of burning and dodging
8. Very rarely de-noise, preferably with Noiseware community edition

9. Very rarely run a little plugin called PF Killer to get rid of purple fringing - usually on my Fuji P&S camera, though

Cheers
Christa
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In no particular order:

Rotating pictures 90 degrees (only from the E-1)
Level adjustments
Dodge and burn / darkening of edges/corners
White balance
The occasional straightening of horizons (*)
Perspective correction
Sharpening
Cropping

Plus when PP'ing film scans:
Removing dust and scratches

(*) Several of my cameras have grids etched into their focusing screens, that helps a lot.
 
Mithandir said:
I tend to be rather minimalist in my post-processing, but I'm curious as to what PP people use most often. I've listed mine below here in order of prevalence (the higher on the list, the more often I use it). If you post your own lists, please mention what camera you use as I think it would be interesting to see whether there's some techniques used more with certain cameras than others.

Here's mine, for the E-510:
  1. Cropping
  2. Noise Removal (noise ninja)
  3. Subtle contrast and lighting (curves)
  4. Colour/white balance correction
  5. Rotate canvas to straighten the horizon
  6. Slight desaturation of the greens
What's yours?
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That would be my list too.

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My typical workflow for 10-12MP image:
1. Cropping

2. Contrast mask overlay at 30-40% & 20pix Gaussian Blur (to increase contrast, I don't invert the layer)
3. Sharpen with High Pass Filter 4pix

for additional PP, I usually add this before sharpening.
1. Gradient overlay
2. Dodge & Burn (may not require sharpening)

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I tend to do minimalist post processing when I do.

Usually it goes:

0. Zero. My B&W's are out of camera
1. Cropping.
2. Some Levels adjust.

3. -> More distant third- horizon adjust in the very few shots that may need it.

Nothing else.

If it's wedding shots- if there's blowout, sometimes highlight recovery.

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Capivara said:
Not necessary for an E-510 ;)
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I shoot raw, one advantage of which is that you can apply 2 stage sharpening - once at the capture level (if necessary - which according to your personal preferences may not be for the E-510) - and then again at the output resolution.

This is the only thing I'm guaranteed to do in PP for every image. I take care to frame carefully at capture, so unless I'm looking for a different aspect ratio I will never need to crop. All my horizons are straight ;)

I do enjoy enhancing levels where necessary (less likely than ever with the E-P1) or perhaps converting to B&W.

Kind Regards

Brian
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Gidday Mith
Mithandir said:
I tend to be rather minimalist in my post-processing,

Here's mine, for the E-510:
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Open in Bridge

Append 'standard' copyright etc metadata

Add keywords; description.

Open in ACR

16 bit, ProPhotoRGB

Tweak WB if necessary

Tweak exposure if necessary

Save DNG and open in PS

USM (amount, radius depending on camera)

Save

Print
Mithandir said:
  1. Cropping
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I only very rarely crop anything ...
Mithandir said:
  1. Noise Removal (noise ninja)
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1 in a thousand ...
Mithandir said:
  1. Subtle contrast and lighting (curves)
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Rare
Mithandir said:
  1. Colour/white balance correction
  2. Rotate canvas to straighten the horizon
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If necessary.
Mithandir said:
  1. Slight desaturation of the greens
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Nope ...

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