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File Prep and Batch Rename

what I did was so we didn't have toe sit while I went through all the images. I just pulled about 25 images from yesterday. And I'm just gonna take you through bridge and photo shop and show you how I work all those. One thing I wanted to touch on a little bit first waas actually, before it comes in a photo shop and that getting it right in camera. Um, I think that is more important. Maybe because I'm not that great photo shop. It is so important to me. But I am a huge, huge proponent of learning your camera shooting manual. I know that it's sometimes it's OK to, you know, aperture Perrotto shut a priority. As long as you know, though, when the images were coming through. Like what? You can adjust to make that rate. Um e also, like I had mentioned, don't want to do the photo shopping of extra things coming out of backgrounds or stray hairs across faces, things like that. So that's why I am so particular when I'm out there shooting the kids, making sure that every little every little de...

tail is right foot. When it comes time to pull it into Photoshopped. All I'm having to dio is color correction run the actions that I use on it. And, like I mentioned before, do some cropping. So we are going to jump into I use Bridge and Photoshopped all I do Enbridge is rename all my images and for that I just select select all which I command A or I don't know how to select them all from up here. I'm sure there's away, uh, command A I select them all and you just go up to tools battery name. And the way I named them is if it's a family last name, first name, then it goes ahead and fills in the date and time will be there in the name. I don't use this text one. I'm using a creative lives computers. So some of the things is it aren't set up exactly how I do it. Um, I used date created and then a sequence number, and actually, for the sequence number, I normally keep it, uh, current. Finally, my believe so that in case there's ever reason anything happens that I start editing and lose the files, you can always go back to the card or go back to whatever and figure it out quite easily. I I used to rename them like remember them, do stuff like that. And I had a situation come up where it was really hard for me to go back because I had to go back to the car and it was really hard for me to find that file. So I like to keep that original, that original number for if it's for a, uh, clothing line or something like that. Usually I default to them and what they want a name, cause sometimes they have whatever line or whatever season or things like that. So for this one, we would just use their name, which, you know, whatever, whatever you want it to be not wanted to be. But whatever you needed to be, the date created it, and then it shows you at the bottom where the new file names so you'll see how that's gonna be set up when the files actually are renamed and all you do right there hit rename. It's a really simple process. It's all done for you. Then what I like to dio is I use bridge to figure out which images I'm going to add it. This is set up a bit different. Let me squeeze this over so I can see my images better. Sorry, Bring that Damn takes a little tweaking on that. They have several ways You can set this up. They have, like, filmstrip. It's different. Whatever. It doesn't matter Whatever is more, most pleasing to your eye and easiest for you to manure. So I go really quickly. Choose manages is kind of like a first gut instinct. So I use the arrow keys and just thumb through like this. And what I do is I use the quickies. If you go up and look under label, you'll see you can either do stars if you're a star person or I like colors, so I use these ones down here. Select second approved review. Uh, it's like red, blue green. I like to use green. Um, so there's approved and I use yellow, which is second for if there's maybe two imminent images that I can't decide between or two images that maybe if there was something you had asked about head swaps. I don't normally don't heads up, but every once in a while. If I have a group shot, it's really easy. Like cut a kid and put a hole, kid, I'm not good at. Like I said, Not good photo shops. I'm not good at lining up those jaws and lining up the hair, but I'm pretty good it. But there's all the background to true, so I do that. Not a lot, but that's that would be another reason why I would use the yellow. And when I used to go Teoh, I rarely do portrait ordering sessions anymore. Like I had mentioned. Almost all of my portrait clients are photographers, so they get the disc of images and I don't go to their house and help them decide what images they want to use or anything like that. Uh, but when I used to go, I would also use these colors for the client to we would pull the images into bridge and I would thumb through just like I do with me, and they would give me their gut so red would be absolutely not yellow would be on. Maybe in Green is like, that's my absolute favorite, so that's a great way to to keep it that way when it was time to go back and look at the images. So when you start going through and selecting, um, like I said, just arrow through and I use the quickies, which you can see right here, which is the command eight coming on seven. Command six. So if I'm gonna go through and select ones toe play with and this is about how quickly I moved through when I'm deciding which images I want to edit that, then if you just want if you're working with your clinic and you just wanted to look at the ones that were the choice, all you do is go over here to this little area where the green is and you click that and that's all you have to look at. So it's much easier to go through when you're when you're sitting down with them. That's what I found. I also really quickly wanted to touch on. Since we're talking about client ordering, designer glow is while they're all encompassing, I don't know what they don't sell. They sell templates for cards. They sell calendar templates. They fell, uh, like business, how to like whole business packs. So, like your business card design your logo, like the news letter had designed. They do all of that. But one of the very first products that I ever bought from them, which is this is this is the old version. It's, uh, it's called the inspired Ride. And basically what it is is it just shows a bunch of wall displays. It's a whole book of wall displace they have with my book. When I did this one, I actually went ahead and added to the beginning. A couple of notes to my clients, Um, just reasons why you want different photos in different rooms, different ideas for, like, printed out, like the options they had for printing mounting on Styrian canvas and just kind of gave descriptions of all that. I also included a cropping chart because I ran into a lot of times. They didn't understand why when they ordered the eight by 10. Why does it look different? Why is you know, the bottom cut off? So this this really helps. Um, so I added those four pages to the beginning, so it's completely I think you get it as like, a pdf or some in, so you can have it printed as a book. But it's nice that you can also add in your own little things too, if you want to. So I kept it. I had the book that I would meet the client with in person. But I also had it as something I could send them. So before the session, many times I would send this and just say, you know, look through this kind of look at the wall desperate displays you really like and let me know, because then I'll know what to shoot for. It'll give me an idea. You know, I know if this is the wall this way they want, they want four of all the same size and they have four kids, Will, odds are it's going to be a shot of each kids. I know. I need to go for that. That look kind of like what I was talking about before when I was saying I try to do the same type shop that give each one a different pose in a different look, Or if they're doing this, then I figure, you know, one of these is gonna be a family shot. Probably want to maybe just be all the kids and then individual. So it gives It gives you a better idea of what you need to dio in your session if you have them. Look at that before they have upgraded it, though. And it is beautiful. Uh, pick this up from them, their local, our local. Now they moved to Portland. Pick this up from them today and she hasn't set up so that you can drop your pictures in and do all the drop the pictures for your client in so they could see exactly how it lays out. It's really, really gorgeous, and I don't have it written down here, but we do have a discount once again in the virtual swag. And the other thing is, too. It's already they have actually, I noticed in the new one, they have a page for price list, but that's what I used to do, is. And when I would just print this out whenever I change my prices or whenever things. So I'm horrible at asking people for money. I can't do it. So this was amazing because they would have this with this. I didn't have to even discuss pricing. They just knew exactly what they were, what they were picking. And the fantastic thing about this is it easily doubled. My fails the first time in use because it takes all the guessing out. It also up sells a lot of bigger prints that a lot of people are uncomfortable ordering, cause they're not sure what they're going to do with it. Ah, lot of my clients, they high level the images and then you get the order into much of eight by tens and five by seven because they just didn't know what to do with, um, this completely changed. I would say each family usually picked like the most popular, was this one on the front. And there's a staircase one, almost every family pick those two. And then on top of that, of course, they would still get the five by seven made by tens that they get toe grandma or takes the office and all those things. So, yeah, I highly highly recommend that I use that all throughout my portrait session selling it was a great great tool, and it was easy for people like me that don't like to discuss those little bits of information and tell people how much they have to pay me. Um, I could just fly this over and be like, what? I'm doing it. So that's what you're checking? Is there any questions so far before I movinto pulling up in the photo shop, I was gonna ask. So when you talk about dropping those off with the clients, you drop off the guide with them and then they bring it to the session and give the book back to Is that something you're giving each client to keep for? The book is just something I brought with me when I met up with them when their images were done. I actually, when you get this from designer glow, it comes. I think it's an API. I can remember which war managed in, but so that you could order the book. But I also had it digitally, so I would just send in the digital, and then they could go through and pick. And the nice thing, too, is they have it. They could. Some of them would print it out and, like, you know, take it to work and what people think and then it spread the word. So it was a nice It's a nice way to get it out and not have toe spending money on a whole bunch of books. I'm not sure you'd always get him all hell back.