7. ITERATIVE CULLING IN LIGHTROOM

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THE SINGLE MOST tedious task when you’re importing pictures in Lightroom is separating bad pictures from good ones so that you can come up with a plan for editing them. This process is known as “culling,” and it will probably take you the longest out of everything you do in Lightroom. I spend a lot of time talking to people around the world about their use of Lightroom, and this part of the process seems to be the part people struggle with the most. To that end, I want to share with you a technique I use that I borrowed from my days as a teacher. I call it “the iterative edit.”

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