When you deliver your images, you give them...

This thread is a question for photographers who offer the client a CD of the images.

When you give the clients a CD, how do you edit them, and in what proportion. Meaning, Do you color correct all of the images, and also give them all in black and white? Or do you give them some color corrected, some with more time spent in photoshop? Or all color corrected, and some re-edited in photoshop? If this is the case, about how many do you edit? 20, 50, all? This is just something that I am trying to figure out how others do it, and i have done a little of all of it and would like to be more consistent.

Thank you.

-Bryan

I am with the minority in that I do the same thing with all photos on disc, meaning I do color correction and enhancements. However, most of my enhancement is stylistic and color-related and I do not do much blemish removal unless the person has some zits that can easily be removed with lightroom's spot removal tool.

I offer a two DVD package (one color and one B&W). Images won't fit onto a CD. I do go through and color correct (or whatever else is necessary) every image my clients see.

Our studio collor enhance each picture in the set and a few of them are further retouched. A weeding means 1-2 days of just postprocessing work.
More established photographers promote albums as a final photography product from a wedding and spend the extra time with the pictures selected for the album only.

For the CD anything that can be done in ACR is done, plus eye/face swaps for group photos. All photos are given in color, and some in sepia if I want to. They get high res 3600x2400 (I want all the photos to be a common size from all my cameras) as well as 500px watermarked. All images are sRgb jpeg files, Q10.

My album photos get little more than this. I don't want to spoil good photos with whatever gimmick is popular today, as it'll look dated tomorrow.

I do basic corrections to every single image on the disk; each one carries my reputation so they all need to be made to look as good as reasonably possible. I'll do a little skin treatment to only the few largest most important portraits of the bride or couple. I'll also do a little cloning on the most obnoxious elements: an exit sign, etc. Then, at my discretion, I'll take a couple of dozen images and do "other things": B&W, sepia, soft focus, etc. Whenever I do additional processing like this, I always include the more ordinary version so they have a choice.

After this, I'm essentiall done with any processing. The only thing I'll do is take a harder look at anything that's going to be blown up to 12" or larger to make sure they really do look their best.

Thanks everybody. I have kinda nailed it down to color correcting/ ACR every image, and then do some further work in photoshop on a good handful. Good to hear thats what a lot of you are doing.

After culling, I color correct every image in Lightroom using presets and syncing settings. I do a few BW in lightroom as well. I then take about 50 or so into photoshop (what I feel are the best of the day). I usually do blemish removals only on closeups.

PMCphotography wrote in post #9895539
After culling, I color correct every image in Lightroom using presets and syncing settings. I do a few BW in lightroom as well. I then take about 50 or so into photoshop (what I feel are the best of the day). I usually do blemish removals only on closeups.

You can do simple blemish removal in LR/ACR now.

Yeah, if it's a simple blemish i use LR, but depending on size and complexity, I generally prefer photoshop. More brushes, spot healing brush, patch tool.