Originally posted by sundown Would you mind sharing your workflow in terms of tools for PSing? Where do you load the image initially, do you work on it in Lightroom form the start?
I start in Lightroom and usually end in Lightroom. I'll often check images I think worth keeping and throw out the rest (usually at least 75% of what I take gets thrown out, and more later). Then I edit what I've kept, attempting to raise shadows without harming local contrast, often through dodging and burning with the brush. I may tweak the color a little bit, usually using color balance, often doing localized edits with the brush. I try to proceed fairly quickly, not spending more than five minutes on any one given image. Then I upload the decent ones to flickr, and some of them get posted on PF. If I want print or send one of them to my fineartameric.com page, I'll do additional edits and fine tune them even more. The image reference from Lady Bird Johnson grove, for example, if I were to print it, I'd brighten up the snow a bit more and change the white balance on the tree on the right.
Below is three pixel-shifted images stitched together in Lightroom: