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# My Photo Processing Workflow As Of 2022-11
- URL: https://numericcitizen.me/my-photo-processing-workflow-as-of-2022-11/
- Published: 2022-11-21T01:28:50.000Z
- Updated: 2024-04-22T01:06:13.000Z
- Description: Here’s my latest update to my photo processing workflow. A lot of changes since my latest update, two years ago.
- Author: JF Martin
- Tags: photography, 500px, Adobe Portfolio, Exposure, Glass, Services, SmugMug, Tools, Universe, Unsplash, Workflow, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2023-03-23 12:41, #numericcitizen

My last photo processing update is more than two years old. Quite a few things have happened since 2020: many things are in, but many things are out too. I learned to use new services while dropping those that don’t fit my content creation journey. Let’s see what’s in and what’s out.

![My photo processing workflow as of 2022-11](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/90/db90e17a-b0ed-4eb3-8db1-a5b434dbead1/content/images/numericcitizen.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2022-11-photo-processing-workflow.png)

My photo processing workflow as of 2022-11 (click to enlarge)

## What’s in

- **Glass**, the new kid on the block of photo-sharing services, is in, and I like it a lot, as I wrote in “[my experience with the service](https://numericcitizen.me/2021/08/18/thoughts-and-observations-from-my-experience-with-glass/).”
- **Exposure** is in, and I love it so much that it will replace Smugmug as my official home. The main reason is the possibility of a great mix of images and text forming beautiful posts. All posts published on Exposure are cross-posted to Micro.blog.
- **Adobe Spark** was renamed to **Adobe Express** recently. I’m rarely using it, but when I do, I like this creative tool.
- On the hardware side, my **iPhone 11 Pro** was upgraded to an iPhone 13 Pro back in the fall of 2021, and I wrote in detail in [Upgrading From the iPhone 11 Pro to iPhone 13 Pro — the Love Story Continues – Numeric Citizen Blog](https://numericcitizen.me/2021/11/13/upgrading-from-the-iphone-11-pro-to-iphone-13-pro-the-love-story-continues/). In summary, it was a great upgrade for my photography creativity.

## What’s out

I guess the following items should be added to my long list of “[Things that don’t stick with me](https://numericcitizen.me/2022/07/03/things-that-dont-stick-with-me/)” article. Let’s see one by one the ousted service or app.

- My iPhone 13 Pro played a major role during my trip to Italy last summer. Two-thirds of my shots came through my iPhone 13 Pro device, one third with my Nikon D750\. The trend is worrisome. Is my **Nikon D750** on the way out? Not yet, but… I know it won’t be part of my next trip to South America this coming December.
- **500px** is out ([it previously replaced Flickr](https://numericcitizen.me/2020/02/02/online-photo-sharing-services-my-experience-with-500px/)) and eventually was, in turn, [replaced by Smugmug](https://numericcitizen.me/2021/05/29/smugmug-the-definitive-home-for-my-online-photo-library/). The latter is on the way out too, and will be replaced by Exposure. The process has already started (read [my Experience using the service](https://numericcitizen.me/2022/11/19/my-experience-with-exposure-a-visual-storytelling-service/) recently published).
- **Universe** was a one-year experience but was later abandoned. It gave me the unique experience of building a simple website showing my urban exploration photographic work.
- **Gurushots**, a photo contest community, is out of my digital life. I still have an account but I no longer spend time on this website. It’s a big waste of time as fully documented [GuruShots Tips and Tricks Guide — The 2021 Edition — Part I – Numeric Citizen Blog](https://numericcitizen.me/2021/02/07/gurushots-tips-and-tricks-guide-the-2021-edition-part-i/) and in [GuruShots Tips and Tricks Guide — The 2021 Edition — Part 2 – Numeric Citizen Blog](https://numericcitizen.me/2021/02/10/gurushots-tips-and-tricks-guide-the-2021-edition-part-2/).
- **Camera+** is another victim of my workflow constant optimization. It was briefly replaced by the excellent Halide, but again it was dropped in favour of Apple’s stock Camera app. If I had an iPhone 14 Pro, I would probably switch back to Halide as it offers an easy way to turn on and off the 48-megapixels camera mode.
- Also out is my content on **Adobe Portfolio** (I wrote [a small review](https://numericcitizen.me/2019/02/17/adobe-portfolio-review/) about the service a while back). While the tied integration with Adobe Lightroom is nice, it wasn’t easy to create a website to my liking, and I eventually dropped the service. Exposure is a photo-sharing service that goes way beyond Adobe Portfolio.
- My use of Adobe Lightroom Classic has significantly decreased since my last workflow update. My go-to photo editing app is Adobe Lightroom (both on iPad or M1 MacBook Air), and Pixelmator Photo on the iPad comes in second. The latter was extensively used during [my summer trip to Italy](https://www.craft.do/s/pquiPWve2Ov3kj?ref=numericcitizen.me).
- I also stopped using **Skylum Aurora HDR & Luminar** as my need for HDR is nonexistent (it used to be the case when I was doing urban exploration, which is no longer the case, sadly).
- On the hardware side, I sold my **2017 4K Retina iMac** (read “[Remembering My Story of Owning The 4K Retina 21.5 inches iMac — 2017-2021 – Numeric Citizen Blog](https://numericcitizen.me/2022/10/29/remembering-my-story-of-owning-the-4k-retina-21-inches-imac-2017-2021/)”) and bought an M1 Mac mini shortly after it came out on the market. I wrote a must-read article on [how to migrate Adobe Lightroom Classic from one Mac to another](https://numericcitizen.me/2021/09/07/migrating-adobe-lightroom-classic-to-a-new-computer-my-experience/). A few months later, I got an M1 MacBook Air. Both of these machines are simply incredibly mighty.

## Miscellaneous

I’m still using **Unsplash** for selecting photos for addition to my content when it makes sense. I contribute from time to time, and that ok. I’m not investing much time in selecting photo content for publication on Unsplash. Sometimes, less is more.

I used to have an **Instagram** account ([The Perfect Imperfctions](https://www.instagram.com/theperfectimperfctions/?ref=numericcitizen.me)) and mostly stopped posting on it. Time is a finite resource, and I have to make choices on where I spend my time creating new and meaningful content. One thing is for sure, Instagram is not what it used to be for photography lovers like me.

## Concluding words

My photography workflow is constantly changing but maybe not as often as [my blogger workflow](https://world.numericcitizen.io/meta?ref=numericcitizen.me). It has been more than two years since my last workflow update, and a lot has changed in two years. I don’t see major changes in the future, as I’d like to keep things a bit more stable for now and use my creativity to make good use of my toolset.