school photo retouching

<p>hello all,<br>

i just got a job taking school portraits and we are having a difficult time. We have hundreds of photos to edit and one of our backgrounds had a lot of scratches on it. since they are in every picture, i was wondering if there was a faster, easier way to edit them. If the camera moves slightly in every photo, is there any kind of action we can do so we don't have to go through each picture to spot heal them? We have to move the camera closer and farther for each child so the scratches move a little in each photo. i feel there is a much easier way, but I don't know what it is. Thanks for any help!</p>

<p>Depending on how much it moves and depending on what you use to edit, but there may be a way.</p>

<p>If you use Lightroom, you can open one and set a larger than needed heal. Then Sync that photo to all in the album and it should cover it in all....provided it isnt moved too far. Go ahead an apply an adjustments you would make to all images at this point so that when it syncs, all images will have those settings. Then just thumb thru all of them and double check as you go.</p>

<p>Other than that, I cant think of anything else you could do....hope you made good money for it if you have to edit all of them.</p>

<p>haha! thanks. yeah, we have crop lines in our viewfinders so it's not a huge shift. But the bosses are trying to get me to do the photoshop work and I asked for more pay and I wanted to do it quick. The photographers are doing like 8+ hour editing for one location! That's insane. I thought I'd try and help cuz I'm just assisting for now.</p>

<p>Another account of the unanticipated added workload not compensated for after going from film/lab processing to a digital workflow. Bet you retired and/or laid off Kodak and legacy film/lab engineers are having a good chuckle over this.</p>

<p>I've been pondering over this dilemma after researching photography workflows in the past couple of years and I have to say this has become a real issue. I recently had a talk with a newbie pro wedding photographer actually earning a living (somewhat) and she indicated she practically ends up earning almost $2 an hour factoring in all the post processing not to mention other expenses. Don't know how event type photographers manage.</p>

<p>Could probably start a new thread discussing this.</p>

<p>This is funny as I offered my services for free online asa photo retoucher and had hardly any responses at all. Since getting laid off last Jan from doing QC work, I have had a lot of free time anyway. I'm thinking of getting into Real estate photogarphy and have gotten aNodal Ninja pano head and PTGUI so far and have been practicing quite a bit. I did do a little retouch work, but it was only a few jobs. Plus I might learn a bit in the process who knows.</p>

 

<p>Get a new background!</p>