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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 390872" data-attributes="member: 13090">I start by weeding out the really bad shots. For me, I only keep four and five-star shots. For this I use Review Mode in Bridge to flag shots as either 4-Star, 5-Star or trash. I don't keep mediocre shots. Then I filter for trash and mass delete it. Review Mode makes this fast and easy and the bum shots don't even touch my hard drive; I do this step right on the SD card itself.Now I use Bridge to rename and copy the keepers to a new folder on my data drive in one fell swoop. I only dive into post processing shots that are going to be seen, either online or in print for so for those shots...It's on to Adobe Camera RAW for global edits to things like exposure, white balance, lens corrections (e.g. distortion, chromatic aberration if there is any) and a little sharpening because ACR is a metric-ton faster than Photoshop pe se for routine, global edits like these. Curves adjustments, if I do any, get done in Photoshop though.After a basic cleanup and corrections session in ACR I switch to NIK Tools in Photoshop for final tweaking and that can take me just about anywhere. I use Silver Effects for conversion to B&W and Viveza for working in color, primarily, but the whole NIK Tools package is simply beyond belief and working with Control Points is nothing short of mind blowing. I'd saw off a limb, possibly two depending on which, before I'd give up NIK Tools. If you don't have it, and you use PS or LR to do your post processing, you really need to consider NIK Tools.....</blockquote>

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