post processing

that's not a very fun title is it? But it is a very important part of your photography workflow. No matter what program you use to process your photos it's very unlikely you post any online or print anything out without some type of post processing. Today I'm going to share a little bit about my own personal workflow.
I upload all my photos directly into Lightroom 5, it's the easiest most streamlined way I've found to do RAW conversion and batch processing.  If you get your white balance and exposure correct in camera while you are taking your photo you won't have to do much in Lightroom, but if you mess up (and who doesn't?) then it can save your butt.
Normally I do a quick curves adjustment, maybe boost the clarity, and always double check the histogram.  You want to be sure that you haven't blown out any highlights and that your details in the shadows aren't lost. Blown highlights drive me crazy (we all have our thing, right?).  If there are any little spots in the photo (like the crumbs on the table here in this SOOC image)

I will heal/clone them in LR but if there is anything major I need to change or remove I move on over to Photoshop CC.  It's a seamless move from one to the other and back, yeah Adobe!
Here is a finished image from the same upload, can you tell the difference? In this shot I also changed the red luminance channel to remove the red color cast on her face.

My editing is usually simple, quick and easy.  How do you post process?

 ~Charlaine