I have just finished studying John Beardworth's
Workflow smart collection. Frankly is not for me! Good Luck. More suggestions will be appreciated! Thank you all.
Maybe you haven't "finished" studying the Smart Collection process.
I use a Color Label Set to quickly identify which of 5 stages any given photo might be in.
This 5 stages are:
"To Be Worked", Purple label assigned on import
"Work In Progress", Blue Label for images progressing through my work flow
"Needs Further Review", Green Label Images that I "think" might be complete but nit yet committed
"Complete: Not In a Published Collection", Yellow Label, Processing is finished but the images is not assigned to a Publish Service.
"In a Published Collection", Red label, Processing is completed and the images is published online to in q local folder
A Publish Service includes a local Amazon folder where they get included in an Amazon Photo Album as a rotating wall display of my photo art or shared on mobile devices for friends. |
I used to have publish services for my local camera club, Flickr, Facebook etc.
For an image to be complete, I need to assign at least one keyword, a Title and a Caption. Internal keywords route the images to the proper Workflow Smart Collection. The image needs to have passed through the develop module and to be cropped (I always crop every image for composition). Smart Collections will gather images that need these develop processes.
Crucial internal use keywords are assigned to images to funnel them into the desired publish services. For Example "@FaceBook" keyword will trigger the FB smart collection for images that have a Title, Caption , other keywords, and a Red Label.
Images assigned to the "Work In Progress" Label get reviewed (culled) and images that don't pass my quality test get rejected (X) A Smart Collection gathers the rejected images for later review and deletion. Anywhere in my workflow I can reject and image
Images that will be processed to completion/publish will get a pick flag
the next step I'm my workflow is assigning keywords Titles and Captions. I have Smart Collections that collect those image lacking keywords, Titles and Captions.
I use rating (stars) to arbitrarily select images of particular merit. The rating stars are subjective. but there are Smart collections to gather these.
If I want to give a talk in Dragonflies, I can create a Smart Collection that finds images that are
"Complete: Not In a Published Collection" or "In a Published Collection" and might be 3 stars or more.
If I want to send a photo to Facebook, it gets published in a FB Smart Collection and that corresponds to a FB album At onetime there was a Facebook Publish Service Plugin that worked with the FB API to automatically post images at FB, but FB discontinued that part of their API so now it needs to be done manually.
Jeffrey Freidl has Publish service Plugins for most of the Social media sites
Jeffrey Friedl's Blog » Jeffrey’s Lightroom Goodies (Plugins and Tools)