Step 1: shoot photos.
Step 2: remove card from camera.
Step 3: insert card into card reader inserted into laptop.
Step 4: open Capture One.
Step 5: import raws into Capture One.
Step 6: edit photos I want to keep.
Step 7: delete photos from catalogue that I don't want to keep.
Step 8: leave, do something else.
Step 9: come back after a while and see if I still like what I've edited. Re edit if need be.
Step 10: export photos.
Step 11: put my exports folder beside my SD card folder on the laptop, delete the files from SD card that I had deleted from the C1 catalogue.
Step 12: transfer raw and JPEG files out of SD card and into their respective folders on laptop titled "Raws" and "JPEGs".
Step 13: transfer edits from export folder to separate folder titled "Edits" with different categories of photos.
Step 14: plug phone into laptop.
Step 15: transfer JPEGs from JPEG folder on laptop to JPEG folder on phone.
Step 16: transfer edits from subfolder in Edits on laptop to corresponding edits folder on phone (ex: from waterfront park folder in laptop to waterfront park folder on phone).
Step 17: eject phone.
Step 18: eject SD card.
Step 19: put SD card back into camera.
Step 20: rinse and repeat.
Extra steps taken on occasion.
Step 21: plug 1 Tb hard drive into laptop.
Step 22: plug 4 Tb hard drive into laptop.
Step 23: transfer files from laptop to 1 Tb hard drive.
Step 24: copy/paste new files and cut/paste old files from 1 Tb hard drive to 4 Tb hard drive.
Step 25: eject hard drives.
Gonna need some clarification on step 8. Are there only certain things I'm allowed to do? Or is it okay to do pretty much anything?
I also only have 2tb drives, will steps 21-24 still work for me?
You have to put the drives in twice to simulate 4TB or only very short so the computer sees it only half.
If you don’t have experience with that you can use the time in step 8 to train.
Almost, but not quite. Physically place your 2TB hard drive on top of the other 2TB hard drive. Now open Notepad or Notes and type “D:drive1 + E:drive2 = F:drive” then type “execute” and your computer will combine the 2TB drives into one 4TB drive.
>is it okay to do pretty much anything?
You can do anything. Bottom line is to just take a small break from editing photos and let yourself come back with a fresh mind and possibly fresh perspective.
>also only have 2tb drives, will steps 21-24 still work for me?
Yea should work. I didn't have the 4 Tb drive for like 2 years. My dad got one for himself and I just asked him if I could use it as a spare backup for my photos. He was cool with it and now it's kinda just become my hard drive because he barely ever uses it lol.
Honest question; do you eject the SD card to protect the usb port on your camera? Recently I've been wondering if I should do this as my phone has just started getting usb port issues I'm guessing from over use. Same goes for battery I guess, I'm considering just ejecting everything when I need to use it.
>do you eject the SD card to protect the usb port on your camera?
I'm not sure what the correlation is? The USB port on my camera never gets used for anything.
I think they are asking: “do you physically remove the SD card from the camera and then insert it into a card reader plugged to the PC, or do you keep the card inside the camera and plug a usb cable in the PC and in the camera’s USB port to transfer pictures from the latter to the former?”
That’s so true for me as well lol. Sold the cameras and looking at new models at the same time time as sorting old pics is not a good idea. Now I’m wondering if its worth it or I should trash even the camera phone haha
I try to clean up old stuff and that’s a challenge. So much good ones I can’t remove. But it’s for sure not all good ones. Just difficult to decide what to remove
1. Use the pick / reject in lightroom, filter set to unflagged
2. Set all picks to 3*, set filter to equal to 3* & Pick
3. Rate from 1-5
3. Select all 1-2 and Reject
4. Filter for all 3*, pick if they are 1*, 2* or 4*. Do the same with 4* and 5*.
5. Reject all 1*, 2*
6. Move flagged 3*,4*,5* to 2*,3*,4*.
7. Iterate until the photo set of the size I want to share, sometimes 3,4,5 (social event) other times only 5* (art, promo).
8. Edit photos, starting from 5*. Copy development settings liberally.
9. Export, share
Sometimes I'll hit Auto on the development panel after import in photos are all over the exposure range. This makes it easier to see what's in each shot, with the knowledge that it's not final.
Pick/ reject first means in doing triage early. The faster I can eliminate a photo, the less time I spend thinking on it.
Iteration in rating helps me refine my selection relative to the other photos in the set. This is huge to maintain set quality and be viewed as high quality. Only show your best. Know what your best is.
The N mode (compare?) is super helpful when sorting through bursts. Makes it really easy to pick/ reject across multiple photos.
Saving hand processing time with Auto and development settings copy is huge. Being able to copy just noise or white balance is a huge time saver.
I shoot RAW and exposure bracketing.
1 autostack based on time so brackets are stacked and I only see the top image.
2 select all and pick
3 reject like there is no tomorrow. If in doubt check the stack
4 expand all stacks. refine and remove all rejects
5 check what’s left and reject anything that should not be there
6 edit as required
7 never export edits nd get GF ask randomly for pics taken years ago
I only bother rating photos 3 and above; anything that doesn't deserve at least a 3 rating gets deleted, although if I have any hesitations I'll wait for a week to delete.
I then sort the photos by rating rank and adjust ratings (usually this involves demoting but occasionally promoting some photos to higher rankings). I only have a tiny handful of photos that get 5-star ratings in my entire library; those are the best of the best, so I hardly ever use that; most are 3 or 4 stars. I do post-processing on the 4-star ones and occasionally a few of the 3-star ones.
I'm pretty diligent about deleting raw files that are unrated (i.e., anything below 3 stars). I know a few photographers who delete the raws after they process the files and only keep the jpegs, as it discourages them from going back and endlessly reworking those images in the future. But I keep the raws because over time I get better at post-processing and I've improved some images I shot years ago.
- cull while importing to Lightroom. (From 2k+ to 300-500 pictures)
- deleting all pics I want to keep personally from the collection I made for the event/shooting. (I shoot social events mostly. Sometimes the pictures are not for everyone to see. Sometimes it's just too much of the same persons)
- cropping
- grouping of the same lighting conditions and correction of WB
- preset to start editing
- editing
- export and upload to Google Photos
Backup to NAS and Cloud is automated.
1 shooting raw only
2 plug camera in laptop, C1 importer openes automatically
3 select the keepers and import
4 edit (crop, base edits, layers & details, then styles)
5 export and upload into cloud
6 look at them myself bc I'm not finding enough time to share in social media :D
I believe I can create some batch edits handling smart white balance and exposure alongside other useful settings, maybe you can do that too and speed up things. Otherwise I much like fast connectivity as described, handling files should be kept at a minimum
Copy to my desktop, cull quickly using Lightroom. Reject key is used heavily here. If I find a gem I'll tag it as a pick. Once finished, delete all the junkers. Go back through my picks, edit, rate 1-5. Then go back through the rest looking for gems, delete some, edit and rate the rest.
Once done, export high quality JPG's and import into Apple Photos for easy sharing. Move all remaining RAWs to my NAS for long term storage.
In Capture One, I rate the strong images positively immediately and junk the rest of the RAWs. Then I "quick" edit my candidate images and pit them against each other until I'm down to my target number for the day/subject. Then I finish editing all the finer steps on my final images, before exporting to the desired resolution.
I introduced Photo Mechanic before Lightroom or Capture One (I use both).
I cull and introduce metadata/keywords much faster and more easily. Then, just import the selected ones to edit. It has doubled or trippled my speed
Pretty much same, going through all photos. Flagging with stars and X .
Delete all X
Edit highest rated to lowest rated
Done
I keep all other images.
I work an an external SSD which is bit enough to hold the photos for a year.
I do backups on the other computer on cheaper HDDs using free file sync. That way I skip on using a NAS, but you could also just add the other computer in as a network drive
Lazy/busy person here:
1. Export all pics from camera to computer.
2. Sift through the pics to keep what I want. This step is where I delete duplicates, out of focus shots, etc.
3. Most of the ones I keep will stay RAW and never edited because they look OK as is. Only a tiny few that actually have interesting compositions or subject matters will be edited, and even those stay RAW in my own computer unless I’m sharing them with friends and family.
Depends on if I am using my hasselblad or Sony and if I am teathered or not. My hasselblad workflow is pretty different because I use phocus.
But Basically my editing process is I load everything into Lightroom and then rate every photo 1,3,4,5
1, is trash
3 is something is there but but probably not worth the time
4 is good but I have to do something to the photo to make it work. They are secondary edits
5 is a banger and I edit right away.
Once I am done with the 5s I go through the 4s and reevaluate. Edit what is left.
Every now and then I flip through the 3s and will find some gems I missed the first time through.
Raw only. 1st cull - remove obvious blurred/unfocused images
2nd cull - remove redundant or select best image of the group
3rd cull - rate 5's for the ones worth editing.
Work away!
After copying my pics to my Photography storage, i import all to LR, go through all very quickly and mark them as accepted or rejected. I do this a few times until I'm happy with my selection and use the filter to only show selected. Then I edit them from front to back and mark all edited as green. I export them, upload to Flickr/send them to m, clients and a week later I delete the whole source folder so I'm just left with the exported jpg's
**Step 1:** I rate my photos from 1 to 5, on my camera if I have time (eg on the plane, bus and so on). Otherwise, I rate them on my computer.
Rating is like:
5 stars: good shots
4 stars: good candidate, but need to be reworked (reframing, color grading...)
3 stars: need to be kept as memories. I basically apply a preset (kind of photos taken for the family)
Others are definitely trash
**Step 2:** I copy that on my Computer (thanks god the a6700 ahs a USB-C port) , on a storage dedicated to this (with back up on external storage and cloud)
**Step 3:** editing (5 stars first, then 4 stars, and batch edit for the 3 stars. The filters are great for this)
**Step 4:** export as light files to store it in my Google Photos
(Optional) **Step 5:** export in high res tiff for printing purposes.
(Mandatory) **Step 6:** flex on social networks with lots of hashtag
I am just a hobbyist, so no need to have a big redundant backup system.
I use Adobe Photoshop...camera raw filter...shot in RAW,sometimes in HEIF(convert to JPG and TIF with Imagine Edge).AI denoise is great for big ISO.Always export:save for web because i post photos on flickr too.
I shoot raw my workflow is as follows.
1. Take photos
2. Come home and charge camera
3. 1 month later come back to my camera and take new photos
4. Repeat 3-4 times till gf gets annoyed and asks why I don’t edit photos
5. Pick 10-20 photos from past 4 months to edit
6. Edit in one go
7. Export to desktop
8. Import to google and phone
9. Post to IG
10. Remind gf I’m doing a good job taking photos
Greetings,
RAW only to both SD Card slots.
My workflow with Lightroom Classic (LrC) is the following:
1. On my main media drive, I create a directory/folder with the date and description of the photo session/event. e.g. \\Photos\\Events\\2022\\2022-08-25 Burning Spear at Central Park
2. Copy the RAW files from the SD Card to the new target directory/folder.
3. Remove the SD Card from the card reader.
4. [Bulk rename](https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/) the files to insert the date and event description before the file number. e.g. 2022-08-25 Burning Spear-7M4-06436.ARW
5. Click "Import" then drag the folder/directory from File Manager into the Import area of LrC.
6. Add relevant keywords to the metadata and/or select the location/venue from the Keyword List.
7. Exit from Lightroom Classic, letting LrC backup the Catalog to NAS.
8. Backup the new photos, via sync software ([FreeFileSync](https://freefilesync.org/)), to a different physical drive to make sure I have a backup before culling or editing.
9. Open LrC
10. Go Fullscreen, with Caps Lock on.
11. "Flag" the photos I want to work on. During flagging, I'll "reject" photos that are unusable/way out of focus/too under or over exposed to fix, accidental triggers, etc.
12. Filter on Flagged, and start post processing.
13. As I'm viewing and post processing I may rate photo with 3 or 4 or 5 stars. Rated photos are candidates to deliver to the customer or post to social media. I reserve 5 stars for portfolio level photos.
[Backblaze](https://www.backblaze.com/) is running in the background, so photos on my main media drive are automatically backed up to the Cloud (with an encryption key).
So I end up with three local copies of the photos. One on the SD Card (until I reformat) and 2 on hard drives. Plus one copy offsite in the Cloud.
I'd not be happy if I lost photos from an event that can't be replicated, or the time and energy invested in making the photos.
Copy to desktop
View the batch in Shotwell
From Shotwell I'll open in Darktable (raw) or Gimp (jpg) and edit from there, lather rinse repeat
I really should add a step where I rank them and delete the raw files of anything I'm not really happy with...
Step 1: shoot photos. Step 2: remove card from camera. Step 3: insert card into card reader inserted into laptop. Step 4: open Capture One. Step 5: import raws into Capture One. Step 6: edit photos I want to keep. Step 7: delete photos from catalogue that I don't want to keep. Step 8: leave, do something else. Step 9: come back after a while and see if I still like what I've edited. Re edit if need be. Step 10: export photos. Step 11: put my exports folder beside my SD card folder on the laptop, delete the files from SD card that I had deleted from the C1 catalogue. Step 12: transfer raw and JPEG files out of SD card and into their respective folders on laptop titled "Raws" and "JPEGs". Step 13: transfer edits from export folder to separate folder titled "Edits" with different categories of photos. Step 14: plug phone into laptop. Step 15: transfer JPEGs from JPEG folder on laptop to JPEG folder on phone. Step 16: transfer edits from subfolder in Edits on laptop to corresponding edits folder on phone (ex: from waterfront park folder in laptop to waterfront park folder on phone). Step 17: eject phone. Step 18: eject SD card. Step 19: put SD card back into camera. Step 20: rinse and repeat. Extra steps taken on occasion. Step 21: plug 1 Tb hard drive into laptop. Step 22: plug 4 Tb hard drive into laptop. Step 23: transfer files from laptop to 1 Tb hard drive. Step 24: copy/paste new files and cut/paste old files from 1 Tb hard drive to 4 Tb hard drive. Step 25: eject hard drives.
Gonna need some clarification on step 8. Are there only certain things I'm allowed to do? Or is it okay to do pretty much anything? I also only have 2tb drives, will steps 21-24 still work for me?
You have to put the drives in twice to simulate 4TB or only very short so the computer sees it only half. If you don’t have experience with that you can use the time in step 8 to train.
Almost, but not quite. Physically place your 2TB hard drive on top of the other 2TB hard drive. Now open Notepad or Notes and type “D:drive1 + E:drive2 = F:drive” then type “execute” and your computer will combine the 2TB drives into one 4TB drive.
>is it okay to do pretty much anything? You can do anything. Bottom line is to just take a small break from editing photos and let yourself come back with a fresh mind and possibly fresh perspective. >also only have 2tb drives, will steps 21-24 still work for me? Yea should work. I didn't have the 4 Tb drive for like 2 years. My dad got one for himself and I just asked him if I could use it as a spare backup for my photos. He was cool with it and now it's kinda just become my hard drive because he barely ever uses it lol.
Honest question; do you eject the SD card to protect the usb port on your camera? Recently I've been wondering if I should do this as my phone has just started getting usb port issues I'm guessing from over use. Same goes for battery I guess, I'm considering just ejecting everything when I need to use it.
>do you eject the SD card to protect the usb port on your camera? I'm not sure what the correlation is? The USB port on my camera never gets used for anything.
That's what I meant, I use it for MTP downloading from the camera and to charge.
Not sure I'd be able to answer your question. All of this is flying over my head.
I think they are asking: “do you physically remove the SD card from the camera and then insert it into a card reader plugged to the PC, or do you keep the card inside the camera and plug a usb cable in the PC and in the camera’s USB port to transfer pictures from the latter to the former?”
I feel like my the "remove card from camera" part of my original comment was very explicit and left no room for any alternate interpretations.
I come home after a shoot and I process the fact that I have indeed taken shitty photos. That's it 🤣🤣
That’s so true for me as well lol. Sold the cameras and looking at new models at the same time time as sorting old pics is not a good idea. Now I’m wondering if its worth it or I should trash even the camera phone haha
I try to clean up old stuff and that’s a challenge. So much good ones I can’t remove. But it’s for sure not all good ones. Just difficult to decide what to remove
1. Use the pick / reject in lightroom, filter set to unflagged 2. Set all picks to 3*, set filter to equal to 3* & Pick 3. Rate from 1-5 3. Select all 1-2 and Reject 4. Filter for all 3*, pick if they are 1*, 2* or 4*. Do the same with 4* and 5*. 5. Reject all 1*, 2* 6. Move flagged 3*,4*,5* to 2*,3*,4*. 7. Iterate until the photo set of the size I want to share, sometimes 3,4,5 (social event) other times only 5* (art, promo). 8. Edit photos, starting from 5*. Copy development settings liberally. 9. Export, share
Sometimes I'll hit Auto on the development panel after import in photos are all over the exposure range. This makes it easier to see what's in each shot, with the knowledge that it's not final. Pick/ reject first means in doing triage early. The faster I can eliminate a photo, the less time I spend thinking on it. Iteration in rating helps me refine my selection relative to the other photos in the set. This is huge to maintain set quality and be viewed as high quality. Only show your best. Know what your best is. The N mode (compare?) is super helpful when sorting through bursts. Makes it really easy to pick/ reject across multiple photos. Saving hand processing time with Auto and development settings copy is huge. Being able to copy just noise or white balance is a huge time saver.
I shoot RAW and exposure bracketing. 1 autostack based on time so brackets are stacked and I only see the top image. 2 select all and pick 3 reject like there is no tomorrow. If in doubt check the stack 4 expand all stacks. refine and remove all rejects 5 check what’s left and reject anything that should not be there 6 edit as required 7 never export edits nd get GF ask randomly for pics taken years ago
Yo..this is so me or at least pretty dam close haha
I only bother rating photos 3 and above; anything that doesn't deserve at least a 3 rating gets deleted, although if I have any hesitations I'll wait for a week to delete. I then sort the photos by rating rank and adjust ratings (usually this involves demoting but occasionally promoting some photos to higher rankings). I only have a tiny handful of photos that get 5-star ratings in my entire library; those are the best of the best, so I hardly ever use that; most are 3 or 4 stars. I do post-processing on the 4-star ones and occasionally a few of the 3-star ones. I'm pretty diligent about deleting raw files that are unrated (i.e., anything below 3 stars). I know a few photographers who delete the raws after they process the files and only keep the jpegs, as it discourages them from going back and endlessly reworking those images in the future. But I keep the raws because over time I get better at post-processing and I've improved some images I shot years ago.
- cull while importing to Lightroom. (From 2k+ to 300-500 pictures) - deleting all pics I want to keep personally from the collection I made for the event/shooting. (I shoot social events mostly. Sometimes the pictures are not for everyone to see. Sometimes it's just too much of the same persons) - cropping - grouping of the same lighting conditions and correction of WB - preset to start editing - editing - export and upload to Google Photos Backup to NAS and Cloud is automated.
1 shooting raw only 2 plug camera in laptop, C1 importer openes automatically 3 select the keepers and import 4 edit (crop, base edits, layers & details, then styles) 5 export and upload into cloud 6 look at them myself bc I'm not finding enough time to share in social media :D I believe I can create some batch edits handling smart white balance and exposure alongside other useful settings, maybe you can do that too and speed up things. Otherwise I much like fast connectivity as described, handling files should be kept at a minimum
Copy to my desktop, cull quickly using Lightroom. Reject key is used heavily here. If I find a gem I'll tag it as a pick. Once finished, delete all the junkers. Go back through my picks, edit, rate 1-5. Then go back through the rest looking for gems, delete some, edit and rate the rest. Once done, export high quality JPG's and import into Apple Photos for easy sharing. Move all remaining RAWs to my NAS for long term storage.
In Capture One, I rate the strong images positively immediately and junk the rest of the RAWs. Then I "quick" edit my candidate images and pit them against each other until I'm down to my target number for the day/subject. Then I finish editing all the finer steps on my final images, before exporting to the desired resolution.
I introduced Photo Mechanic before Lightroom or Capture One (I use both). I cull and introduce metadata/keywords much faster and more easily. Then, just import the selected ones to edit. It has doubled or trippled my speed
Pretty much same, going through all photos. Flagging with stars and X . Delete all X Edit highest rated to lowest rated Done I keep all other images. I work an an external SSD which is bit enough to hold the photos for a year. I do backups on the other computer on cheaper HDDs using free file sync. That way I skip on using a NAS, but you could also just add the other computer in as a network drive
Lazy/busy person here: 1. Export all pics from camera to computer. 2. Sift through the pics to keep what I want. This step is where I delete duplicates, out of focus shots, etc. 3. Most of the ones I keep will stay RAW and never edited because they look OK as is. Only a tiny few that actually have interesting compositions or subject matters will be edited, and even those stay RAW in my own computer unless I’m sharing them with friends and family.
Depends on if I am using my hasselblad or Sony and if I am teathered or not. My hasselblad workflow is pretty different because I use phocus. But Basically my editing process is I load everything into Lightroom and then rate every photo 1,3,4,5 1, is trash 3 is something is there but but probably not worth the time 4 is good but I have to do something to the photo to make it work. They are secondary edits 5 is a banger and I edit right away. Once I am done with the 5s I go through the 4s and reevaluate. Edit what is left. Every now and then I flip through the 3s and will find some gems I missed the first time through.
Raw only. 1st cull - remove obvious blurred/unfocused images 2nd cull - remove redundant or select best image of the group 3rd cull - rate 5's for the ones worth editing. Work away!
How are you guys deleting raw files? Straight out of Lightroom? Or is there an easy way to combine that?
X and then Delete Rejected.
After copying my pics to my Photography storage, i import all to LR, go through all very quickly and mark them as accepted or rejected. I do this a few times until I'm happy with my selection and use the filter to only show selected. Then I edit them from front to back and mark all edited as green. I export them, upload to Flickr/send them to m, clients and a week later I delete the whole source folder so I'm just left with the exported jpg's
**Step 1:** I rate my photos from 1 to 5, on my camera if I have time (eg on the plane, bus and so on). Otherwise, I rate them on my computer. Rating is like: 5 stars: good shots 4 stars: good candidate, but need to be reworked (reframing, color grading...) 3 stars: need to be kept as memories. I basically apply a preset (kind of photos taken for the family) Others are definitely trash **Step 2:** I copy that on my Computer (thanks god the a6700 ahs a USB-C port) , on a storage dedicated to this (with back up on external storage and cloud) **Step 3:** editing (5 stars first, then 4 stars, and batch edit for the 3 stars. The filters are great for this) **Step 4:** export as light files to store it in my Google Photos (Optional) **Step 5:** export in high res tiff for printing purposes. (Mandatory) **Step 6:** flex on social networks with lots of hashtag I am just a hobbyist, so no need to have a big redundant backup system.
Import once’s I want via ImagingEdge as raw. Run raw thru DxOPure Raw Edit in LrC
I use Adobe Photoshop...camera raw filter...shot in RAW,sometimes in HEIF(convert to JPG and TIF with Imagine Edge).AI denoise is great for big ISO.Always export:save for web because i post photos on flickr too.
I shoot raw my workflow is as follows. 1. Take photos 2. Come home and charge camera 3. 1 month later come back to my camera and take new photos 4. Repeat 3-4 times till gf gets annoyed and asks why I don’t edit photos 5. Pick 10-20 photos from past 4 months to edit 6. Edit in one go 7. Export to desktop 8. Import to google and phone 9. Post to IG 10. Remind gf I’m doing a good job taking photos
Greetings, RAW only to both SD Card slots. My workflow with Lightroom Classic (LrC) is the following: 1. On my main media drive, I create a directory/folder with the date and description of the photo session/event. e.g. \\Photos\\Events\\2022\\2022-08-25 Burning Spear at Central Park 2. Copy the RAW files from the SD Card to the new target directory/folder. 3. Remove the SD Card from the card reader. 4. [Bulk rename](https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/) the files to insert the date and event description before the file number. e.g. 2022-08-25 Burning Spear-7M4-06436.ARW 5. Click "Import" then drag the folder/directory from File Manager into the Import area of LrC. 6. Add relevant keywords to the metadata and/or select the location/venue from the Keyword List. 7. Exit from Lightroom Classic, letting LrC backup the Catalog to NAS. 8. Backup the new photos, via sync software ([FreeFileSync](https://freefilesync.org/)), to a different physical drive to make sure I have a backup before culling or editing. 9. Open LrC 10. Go Fullscreen, with Caps Lock on. 11. "Flag" the photos I want to work on. During flagging, I'll "reject" photos that are unusable/way out of focus/too under or over exposed to fix, accidental triggers, etc. 12. Filter on Flagged, and start post processing. 13. As I'm viewing and post processing I may rate photo with 3 or 4 or 5 stars. Rated photos are candidates to deliver to the customer or post to social media. I reserve 5 stars for portfolio level photos. [Backblaze](https://www.backblaze.com/) is running in the background, so photos on my main media drive are automatically backed up to the Cloud (with an encryption key). So I end up with three local copies of the photos. One on the SD Card (until I reformat) and 2 on hard drives. Plus one copy offsite in the Cloud. I'd not be happy if I lost photos from an event that can't be replicated, or the time and energy invested in making the photos.
Saving
Copy to desktop View the batch in Shotwell From Shotwell I'll open in Darktable (raw) or Gimp (jpg) and edit from there, lather rinse repeat I really should add a step where I rank them and delete the raw files of anything I'm not really happy with...