Select the Perfect Photo Faster | 3 Tips to Cull Through Photos Faster

In this video, Jeff Rojas will demonstrate three ways to pick your favorite photos faster. If you're interested in culling your digital images, this is the video for you.

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[ronyedin]

I created an import preset that contains my camera profile, lens correction and sharpness setting of 50 and high mask as a starting point. That way I don’t have to do it manually for every single image. If you use the same lighting setup, you could even do your white balance correction on import. You can have several import presets for your different setups.

[adamtoth]

Thanks, Jeff the last tip was a game-changer for me!

[codymathison]

wow, this was incredibly helpful. thank you!

[dannycastro]

I just got the A7III last week and discovered the rating tool the other day. It really does speed up my work flow by going over the images with the model. 📸👌

[sabesyed]

Jeff, you just provided more help than many much longer videos! I’d love more post production time saving tips!

[fazalnadeem]

Brilliant idea with the selection process.

[Zakalwe-]

Never tried this, so it's a great tip. Thanks Jeff!👍

[crystalfuchs]

Okay, I am the WORST at culling and end up giving way too much...the hunger games thing is life changing, no kidding...thank you! I will have more time with my family now.

[raviputcha]

Making edits for exposure, lens correction and WB makes sense before culling the images. I use Nikon gear and there's way of rating the pics in camera.

[MilesDeep]

I really like the photo hunger games idea, definitely going to do that. Thanks for the tip!

[christaylor-low]

Dig the Hunger Games selection tip. Makes a lot of sense.

[liekedirkx]

I'm doing something wrong with the hunger games idea. Because when I select 3-5 pictures to choose one. I flag every photo when I press 1 because they are all selected. How do I only flag one picture as fast as you do in the video?

[Darthvolvo]

Gonna put this to use when I have to cull photos.

[MGrose]

I similarly do this except I use 4 star and then 5 star and then color coded red or green for my final image.

[andrewchisholm]

Good ideas but as I am partially sighted most of the time I have to wait till I get to a bigger screen to see what I have. In the future I may look at tethered shooting if I get my own studio but I would need a screen over 24 inches in size so its not an option now especially when travelling to shoots

[RJMPictures]

Imagine if Lightroom was actually as fast as Photo Mechanic ...