Typical
digital photography workflow
A digital photographer’s workflow is a question of habit and taste,
but all digital photography involves certain inevitable steps: shooting,
culling, post-processing and archiving. Consider a typical workflow in
a photography assignment (let’s say it’s a wedding):
After the most inevitable part of a photography workflow (the shooting!),
the photographer needs to reject unsuccessful shots and sort those remaining
(for example, sort the keepers into “ok but not worth printing,”
“send to client” and “wedding photo of the year”
folders). Displaying and dragging photos into the correct folder in Windows
file explorer or in ThumbsPlus is ok for 50 photos, but extremely impractical
for 2000 photos!
After the culling, the photographer
has 50 remaining candidates to be sent to the client. After some post-processing
in his/her favorite post-processing application(s), the 20 photos that
turned out to be the best ones after post-processing are archived and
organized in an archiving application with names, descriptions, keywords,
etc.
Why Pixort was developed
After buying a Canon EOS 10D in May 2003, my photography habits changed
dramatically. Earlier I shot 50-100 shots during a summer holiday, now
I often shoot 500 during a weekend (and actually that’s not very
much compared to professionals!). With this increase in number of photos,
culling became a real pain. I tested different tools and realized that
all the tools were actually more targeted towards step 3 and 4. I couldn’t
find any effective way to compare, reject and sort 500 photos.
To make a long story short:
one nice thing about being a programmer is that you can make the tools
you want. I needed a “step 2” tool, and thus Pixort was born!
What
Pixort is not
Pixort is not an image editing tool, nor will it ever be. It
will get some image editing-similar tools like brightness/contrast and
levels adjustment, but it is only intended for aiding photo judgment.
Pixort is not a photo
archiving/organizing application. There are plenty of excellent tools
out there that can do the job very well.
Supported
formats
Currently, the following formats
are supported. More formats will be supported in the future.
- JPEG (any camera)
- TIFF
- DNG
- Canon EOS D30/D60/10D/300D
and G2/G3/G5 (possibly others as well) .crw/.thm raw files
- Canon EOS 1DmkII/5D/20D/30D/350D
.cr2 raw files
- Canon EOS 1D and 1Ds tiff-raw
files
- Nikon .nef raw files
- Fuji .raf raw files
- Olympus .orf raw files
- Minolta .mrw raw files
- Pentax .pef raw files
- Kodak .dcr files
Price
Pixort is pretty cheap - $25
per licence! You may download a 30-day trial version with no feature limitations.
Alternatively, you can use the FREE version for non-commercial purposes. |
