Post Processing Workflow –Software and Hardware I use

One of your best videos, thanks a lot Matti!

Great idea with the Keywords !

I am working in film and video. It seems stills are much more relaxed.

Thanks for the useful video Matti. I'd be interested to know what hardware and approach you use for printing photographs (that may have been a factor in you getting that BenQ monitor maybe). I guess that not many others will be interested in this though. I use the built in screen on an iMac 27 which is great for screen viewing but not great for printing although I don't do enough printing yet to have much experience of this.

That was helpful

Matti, Kiitos! It would be great to see your video workflow as well as software/hardware, it's always very helpful to see behind the scenes. You and Peter Forsgard make me proud to be a Finn, it's too bad I live in Canada :P Cheers!

Interesting to learn how you go about your workflow. I agree with you about using local storage and about not wanting to depend the cloud. However, unlike you, I don't completely trust multiple local storage drives either. I prefer the added redundancy of going with multiple local drives and the cloud. That said, I find that latter to be aggravating at times.

I love open source so I don't use Lightroom but RawTherapee and I don't use Photoshop but Gimp. Give it a try it's free and very close to Adobe. :) Thank you for your tips.

Hi Matti, I always enjoy your videos, and of course also this one. I have more or less the same philosophy as yours when it comes to post production and careful framing and shooting. Perhaps because like you I have an analog photography background. I will probably follow your advice and start shooting in RAW more often and... buy myself a good monitor.

Good video and interesting discussion, my friend. I notice you have the monitor in front of a lit wall, is that intentional so that you equalise the dynamic range of the screen and the room? I use ACR (similar editing to LR). Over the past year, I have established default presets based on the raw file signature usually based on a develop profile, auto exposure, as the starting point. White Balance, Olympus gets it right to the way I like, I do but seldom tweak it

Thanks, Matti! Very interesting.

All first camera buyers should get a compulsory course on the importance of keywords. Starting with them after a couple of years and a backlog of ....K photos is a herculean task. (Still not completely finished :( )

Thanks Matti! Your content is always simple yet fantastic. I am gonna use keywords from now on in LR. I just figured out while you were speaking that it takes me so much time to search through my photos.

For Lightroom, when I import I change all file names to yearmonthdaytimesecond. And before clicking import if all images will be sharing some tags I'll have them applied automatically upon import.

This also give a fitting reply to my comment the other regarding usability of RAW,that I made on your last video which was about busting different myths