Excessive Hand-Cropping Time

Excessive Hand-Cropping Time in Adobe Photoshop — with a ready prompt for the moment it comes up. 1 real situation leads here.

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The moments that lead here

If one of these is your afternoon, you are in the right place.

too much time lost hand-cropping shoots

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Become — change the pattern

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Half my week disappears to manually importing and cropping photographer folders. Over the last…
Half my week disappears to manually importing and cropping photographer folders. Over the last [N=10] shoots where I handled images, where do I repeatedly spend the most time — selecting frames, choosing crops for each template, or re-exporting for different sizes? Recommend one change to my import workflow that saves time but preserves the editorial crops art direction expects.

Who does this, and with what

The same task is different work inside a different job.

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