The workflow that I use for the photographs on my website has remained pretty much unchanged for many years.
- Copy the photos from the card to the computer and then delete them from the card.
- Open the folder of photos in ACDSee and delete any obvious duds.
- Open all the photos in Paint Shop Pro 4 (yes, I know it's ancient but it works well, I know my way around all the tools and it's fast).
- I look for similar photos and close the ones that are redundant or unattractive, eventually whittling it down to the set of photos that will form a nice album page.
- I rotate (sometimes by arbitrary angles) and crop. Sometimes I'll adjust brightness and/or contrast to save a poor photo if there's something in particular that I want to have a picture of. Sometimes I'll use a more sophistical program like Photoshop to remove redeye or do other colour manipulations.
- Very occasionally I will use the clone tool to erase something that I don't want in the photo.
- I'll resample the photos to the appropriate size and save them as jpgs.
- Finally I'll manipulate the directory listing in a text editor to create the html file, add captions and upload the lot.
Someday I'll trade in my trusty Olympus C3000Z and get a nice digital SLR. But I might wait a few years because the high dynamic range revolution is coming. More about that tomorrow.