I have a workflow in Adobe Camera Raw that I like, but I’m curious what you all do to get images out of your camera and onto iNat? And specifically, which color profiles do you select for your jpg/png exports so that iNat’s presentation matches your personal color expectations?

Interesting thread! I’ve often wondered this myself! As for my workflow, I try to keep it at a minimum. I always shoot in RAW, so I can crop without losing as much detail. This is especially important with distant animals. I don’t do much editing of the photo, and what I do is only for the benefit o…

Good to hear someone who works the same way I do. I shoot in JPG and crop and adjust in Picasa. I love exploring and finding organisms, my happy place is out in the garden and veld, not in front of an editing program.

I really like the image editor in Photos, the denoise function works really well and is simple so I do all my editing there, but I’m not sure how to move the photo to preview from photos?

Import digicam files into Lightroom → culling, hierarchical keywording → cropping/levels/balance/whatever → export to jpeg (via Exiftool, for metadata sanitation + location obfuscation) → web upload.

[image] insectobserver123: then I take a screenshot of the photo Why the screenshot? Why not just drag/drop the edited image (saved on your computer)?

That depends largely on how much effort I put into the photo and how satisfied with it. For a photo like this , it’s literally just: 1: Take photo 2: Crop 3: Post For something like this or this , my process goes something like: 1: Take photo 2: Crop 3: Add “clear” filter using Line Camera to …

I have been shooting primarily in RAW for a few years now. Being a Canon and Windows user, I use Digital Photo Professional to do basic editing(cropping, white balance adjustment, etc) and resizing to a JPG less than 2048 in the long dimension for iNaturalist purposes. I usually add a simple waterma…

iNat reduces the resolution more if I drag the raw file out of photos into iNat than If I screenshot the raw file and drag and drop the resulting screenshot

What's your image editing process from raw image to iNat

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I use the Photos app on my Mac also, but then I use Export Photos because it maintains all the metadata.

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What's your image editing process from raw image to iNat

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