Hi all - please bear with me while I climb on my soapbox. This is on my mind after a few intense conversations at the trade shows...
[clears throat]
Workflow is a touchy issue, but our philosophy is simple: only work on the shots you get paid for. By which I mean...
Do as little work as possible on your images until you've sold them (for example, included them in an album design). Time you spend on images that you don't sell is time wasted.
PJ lets you export a layered PSD, and you can edit that to your heart's content! Just take care not to decrease your hourly rate too much ;-)
[steps down from soapbox]
I'll call it a day and wait to hear from the people I just offended! If you're reading this by email, please click through to the blog to comment.
Warm regards, Danny
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I AGREE completely about not wasting time that is NOT chargable... NOW, if I could only NOT waste time by being able to drag apertures into page layouts WITHOUT PJ Remix CRASHING every time, I will have saved HUNDREDS of dollars!!! When is this infuriatig bug going to get fixed??? :-(
I agree too! Let us help, email us on info@photojunction.com and we'll do our best once we have enough info to respond.
Cheers
Danny
p.s. Please make sure you're using 1.08 as this might have already been addressed.
The difference between now and the days of film is that clients are very often receiving slideshows or proofbooks to keep and discs of files, all that show those "proof" photos. They also have proof galleries online that they will share with all of their friends and family. Knowing how many people will view these "proof" photos, it's obvious that a photographer would want to make them look as good as possible. The whole concept of unfinished proofs seems to be falling by the wayside as everyone tries to find ways to avoid paying for a finished product. By paying for the photographer at all, many feel that they have already paid for the images. The only solutions I see are to go ahead and charge up front for the extra work that you are doing or just accept that most people will never see the finished, at-its-best version of your work.
Before anyone actually sees our clients' images, a note pops up and it says, "Ordered prints will be professionally color corrected, cropped and lightly retouched." Short enough for them to read but enough info that they know prints will look better. Besides, we all work on calibrated monitors. We think the perfected images are gorgeous but the subjects look like clowns on some of the viewers' gaming monitors! Why stress when we can't control the guests' viewing conditions?
When doing processing effects the customer won't order what they can't see.
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