Defining Your Workflow

Live Online Event
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
1pm to 5pm Eastern Time


Join Tim Grey for a half day of live online presentations during a GreyLearning Ultimate Event focused on "Defining Your Workflow".


NOTE: All GreyLearning Ultimate Events are included at no additional cost in the GreyLearning Ultimate Bundle. If you already subscribe to the GreyLearning Ultimate Bundle, you'll be registered for this course automatically. And if you're not already a GreyLearning Ultimate Bundle subscriber you can learn more about the bundle here:

https://www.greylearning.com/bundles/greylearning-bundle?coupon=99ultimate


How to Watch

The live online presentation will stream right here within the "GreyLearning Ultimate Event: Defining Your Workflow (July 2023)" course. To watch the live presentation simply sign in on the GreyLearning website, and then go to the "My Dashboard" page to find this course. You can also follow this link to go directly to the course after signing in, clicking the "Resume Course" button to view the presentations:

https://www.greylearning.com/courses/greylearning-ultimate-event-defining-your-workflow-july-2023


Presentation Topics

  • Workflow with Your Camera
  • Storage Planning
  • Folder Structure Strategy
  • Beyond the Folder
  • Leveraging Import in Lightroom Classic
  • Identifying Favorites and Outtakes
  • Keywording Strategies
  • Location Metadata
  • Organize for Search


As a photographer it is quite easy to accumulate a large number of photos, which can ultimately lead to challenges when it comes to locating a photo you need when you need it. A streamlined workflow for organizing your photos can help you avoid frustration and gain confidence.

This GreyLearning Ultimate Event on "Defining Your Workflow" will help you define, refine, and improve your workflow for organizing your photos. While the topics presented can be applied to a workflow using any software, specific tips will also be included on the use of Adobe Lightroom Classic.

The live online event will kick off on Wednesday, July 19th, at 1:00pm Eastern Time (10am Pacific Time), and will conclude at about 5pm Eastern Time (2pm Pacific Time). Recordings of all sessions will be available to those who are registered for the event.


Presentation Details

Tim Grey will share tips and techniques to help you define a streamlined and effective workflow for keeping your photos organized. The event will include presentations on the following topics:

Workflow with Your Camera: Your workflow for organizing photos can start before you even get back to your computer after capturing photos. You can often leverage features of your camera to help get started organizing photos as part of the process of creating new images. This presentation will highlight some of these capabilities, so you can start your organizational workflow as early as possible.

Storage Planning: You obviously need a place to store your photos, and that could mean needing significant storage capacity as your library of photos grows. In this presentation Tim will share recommendations for making the fundamental decisions about where your photos are stored.

Folder Structure Strategy: It makes sense to organize your photos on a hard drive using a folder structure, but how you define that folder structure can have a significant impact on the efficiency of your workflow and your ability to find photos later. In this presentation you'll get tips for defining a folder structure strategy that will help you stay organized while avoiding clutter and confusion.

Beyond the Folder: In addition to using folders as a basic tool for organizing photos, software such as Lightroom Classic enables you to group photos together in other ways, such as with collections and smart collections. In this presentation you'll learn about these options, and how you can put them to use for a workflow that goes beyond the folder structure.

Leveraging Import in Lightroom Classic: If you're using Lightroom Classic to manage your photos, it can be tremendously helpful to make full use of the import feature to get your photos as organized as possible right from the start. This presentation will help you better understand all the tools available for an organized import of your photos into Lightroom Classic.

Identifying Favorites and Outtakes: Some of the photos you capture you will consider favorite images, and some will be considered outtakes that you're not likely to use for any purpose. A streamlined and consistent workflow for identifying your favorites versus outtakes can help you reduce clutter and make your best photos easy to find. In this presentation you'll get tips for using some unique ways to identify your favorites and outtakes quickly, resulting in better organization in your workflow.

Keywording Strategy: To be sure, keywording is not a task that many of us look forward to performing. However, a good keywording strategy can make it easier to locate specific photos and also to remind yourself of the contents of a particular image. This session will provide you with tips and insights to help you make the most of keywords in your workflow.

Location Metadata: If the location where you capture your photos is meaningful, documenting that information can be very helpful, both for locating specific photos and being reminded of where they were captured. In this presentation you'll learn about some of the options for adding location information to your photos, including completely automated approaches as well as manual options.

Organize for Search: The whole point of organizing your photos in the first place is to be able to find your photos later. In fact, knowing how to find photos can even impact some of your decisions about your organizational workflow. In this presentation you'll learn about some of the many ways you can search for photos, which can help inform your decisions about getting organized in the first place.