Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 9:53 AM by Joseph Linaschke ShootDotEdit Now Offers an Aperture Workflow
For those big-event photographers out there who don’t have time to edit their work but can’t justify hiring a full-time assistant, you’re gonna love this.
ShootDotEdit has been offering a service for years where you send them your photos from a shoot — straight from the camera if you like! — and they pick out the best and then treat those to your specifications. The more you work with the company, the more they get to know your personalized style, and the less and less work you’ll need to do on your own. It’s a wicked cool service; like having a personal photo-editing assistant but one you only need to pay when you actually have work for them to do!
For Aperture users though up until now the workflow has been less than ideal. All edits were done in Photoshop (or Bridge, I guess) and so all the lovely features of Aperture were totally unused. But that’s no longer the case. Now you can send them an Aperture Library, and they will send that Library back — with all the edits you asked for. Since you only have to transfer the masters once, any additional back-and-forths are very quick to transfer, and you can easily keep a history of your edit by simply holding on to older versions of the library. Any adjustments are done in Aperture itself, so if you want to tweak the work they did, you don’t have to start over again. It’s truly an ideal situation for any Aperture user.
If you visit their page at ShootDotEdit.com you’ll be greeted with a new splashscreen explaining how it works. There are tutorial videos by Sara France as well, so you can watch precisely how the to submit and receive your jobs. I was on their beta so I’ve experienced the process first hand, and I have to say it’s pretty darn cool. I can’t wait to send my next big job their way!
Reader Comments (2)
This sounds pretty cool. I might consider using these guys for my next wedding. Do thye offer a free "preview" service to try them out? Something like send in 5 photos and see the results?
I don't think there's a free trial since there are real man-hours involved in any edit, but I'm pretty sure the minimum is quite small and they do want you to test with a non-critical job to start. They need to get to know your likes and dislikes so that when I counts, it's the way you want it first time out. The first edit will require more back and forth than the rest will, for that reason.