{"id":696,"date":"2018-02-18T19:35:18","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T09:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/?p=696"},"modified":"2018-09-11T08:41:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T22:41:30","slug":"the-nfgphoto-workspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/the-nfgphoto-workspace\/","title":{"rendered":"The NFGphoto Workspace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Capture One<\/a> for RAW processing
\nGIMP<\/a> for editing and retouching
\nPaintShop Pro<\/a> for batch processing
\nFastStone Viewer<\/a> for browsing photos<\/p>\n

As you can see, one of the monitors is rotated ninety degrees. When working with my RAW editor of choice, Capture One Pro, it uses a vertical menu that’s very long. If there’s not enough room, the tools will each collapse when not in use, but that’s an extra click every time so I spin the display and get 1920 vertical pixels of toolbox. The same benefits apply to any app with tools in a secondary window, which is most of my apps. The image below is a screenshot of both monitors, running Capture One:<\/p>\n

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And here’s a close-up shot of some of the tools I use. The menus can be configured any way you like, so no two workflows will be the same.<\/p>\n

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Once I’ve finished with the RAW edits, I shuffle the rendered images to GIMP, a very poorly named editor with some very powerful tools. I do all the cleanup and skin smoothing here, its almost limitless customisation makes it incredibly speedy once I’ve set it up the way I like it.<\/p>\n

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For the high-res finished images, that’s the end of the process. If I’m working on the proofs from a shoot, the next stage is running them through a batch processor. In this case, I use Corel’s Paint Shop Pro. Until I started using GIMP, PSPro was my editor of choice. It’s old and fast but it’s been resting on its laurels since Corel bought it, so I can’t really recommend it anymore. But it has a great script editor.<\/p>\n

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And finally, for general image browsing, I use FastStone Viewer. It used to be quicker before I started asking it to deal with 36 megapixel JPGs, but I haven’t yet found a replacement that works the way I want, so I stick with it.<\/p>\n

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This is the NFGphoto workspace, at its cleanest and least cluttered. It’s rarely actually like this, and certainly for very short periods when it is.<\/p>\n

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I run a Windows 7 PC, with a quad-core i7 and 16GB RAM. It’s pretty quick, and I use an nvidia 980Ti video card to help with the graphics processing. I use four different graphics apps in my daily photo workflow:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,23,33],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos","tag-blog","tag-processing","tag-workflow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}