Hi,

I've been using QI since early 2000's and love it.

I was wondering what the best work flow for a large photo shoot would look like now in v2017.    I still struggle working with lots of pictures, and use other tools to do things like cull pictures that are out of focus and duplicates etc. and backup images to my NAS.   I would like to use QI as my primary tool from start to finish without wasting time going back and forth.
I would like to import images from my card, cull shots I'm not going to use, refine raw, create filter, edit in PS if I need to do something that I can't in QI, add to queue or on deck, backup images to my NAS, and then print.

How would you do it?

I'm hoping I've overlooked something, or someone has some ideas before I go and add what I'm thinking should be done in the QI Features Request.

Thank you for your suggestions?

Bob

Hi Bob,
I doubt if there are any features you need to help with a workflow, ask and it may be there already!
Like Fred, I use FCCM to copy images to my main HDD and a backup external drive.
I would not normally delete shots (unless they were obviously very out of focus or badly composed), until I'd at least let QU built the raw cache and let QU's smart exposure and smart fill do it's work.
You could then use, from the thumbs right click menu, best shot selector to choose the best of similar shots and tag them by giving a rating. Thumbs can be sorted by rating.
My first stage of raw refine is to deal with white balance, either from a grey card shot or suitable image and copy to relevant images.
Then I go through batches of 7 selected thumbs (8- thread processor - leave one thread for other background processing) and do any detail refine work required.
After this, again using best shot selector and modifying ratings, choose those to edit with filters, DFS sharpening in particular.
I hope that helps a little.

PS. The other tool for selecting and rating images is the Preview/Add to queue button above the current directory/history drop-down. There you can rate and select images; it's not necessary to add to the queue if not needed.
Terry

This makes me think of one "button" rarely mentioned or never known.
When you go into the Image Editor and deciding too light, just right, too this or too that; needs some better shadow detail here.... or whatever that an extra tick of FILL  or the repositioning the yellow ODR detail box would do it....
There's a little green button that pops you back into REFINE to do what you wish to touch up, and then it returns you back to the editor screen.
I even sometimes go right into the editor and go into refine using that route anyway.

See screen snap looking for the cursor arrow. Unmarked button.

Fred