Ideas to help you select your wedding images
Here at Roy Dressel Photography we try and make the process of working with us easy, we realize that this is going to be new for you. We supply information all through the process letting you know what to expect Selecting your wedding images, a few ideas
We put the following information in with all our wedding preview CDs to help our bride and grooms in the selection process. If you have gone through the process and have some ideas we would love to here them. It can be a daunting process, going through the hundreds of images. Hopefully this will make it go a little smother. We supply an album or book or both with all our packages so the notes you see refer to those books.
You find yourself staring at all the beautiful images from your wedding day and sometimes it becomes overwhelming. How do you select the ones you want in your books? How do you narrow it down? From recent experience I have a few ideas.
First, Create a folder called Wedding, or Wedding Images or what every you want to call it, so you can easily remember what it is and where it's at. Now put all the images that are on your preview CD into that folder, then create the following folders inside the main folder, call the first one "Album", make a second one called "don't like, or something like that for any images you simply don't like. Now, make a third folder and call it "Photo Book", this will be for the images that you'll want to put into your hard cover photo book.
I like to go through the images and decide which ones I don't like first. This will get them out of the mix and free you to see just the ones you like.
Now, go through the remaining images and select the ones you like the best and put them into the "Album" folder. Once you have done this you will no doubt have to many images in that "Album" folder, now it's time to go back through these images to weed them down a bit. It may be time to get a cup of coffee, maybe even go to Starbucks and get a nice Caramel Frapachino, give it some time and come back to it later.
Once your back to it, open the Albums folder and really go through it, looking at each image, asking yourself if that image is really something you want in your main album or maybe it should go into your photo book or fun book, or maybe that is an image you don't really want after all.
Sometimes this will take several sessions to get down to a reasonable amount of photos for your album. Remember that you can add images to your album, up and above those that came with the package. It's flexible.
Once you are happy with the images that are in your Album folder, and did the same for the photo book, it's time to transfer those numbers to your album order form and bring that form back to us, and we'll do the rest.
Here at Roy Dressel Photography we try and make the process of working with us easy, we realize that this is going to be new for you. We supply information all through the process letting you know what to expect at the next stage.
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