My workflow begins when I take a photo with my camera. My camera’s color space is set for Adobe RGB (it offers a wider gamut than sRGB and loss of information should occur as close to the end of the workflow as possible). My camera is almost always set to RAW only mode. The only reason I would consider switching to JPG only is to shoot sports and that’s really no my thing although I will eventually try it out. I see no real purpose to shoot in RAW+JPG. It will create twice as many files; and with a good workflow you can generate JPGs very quickly anyway.

Once the images have been captured, they must be transferred from the capture card to the hard drive of my workstation. There are several ways of doing this effectively. However, before I jump into this, I sidetrack to explain why this step is not as easy as it sounds.
Initially, as many others, I tried to organize my images by theme on my hard drive. This may work initially but quickly falls apart in scenarios like this: I go on vacation with a friend to Alcatraz in San Francisco. Does the shot get filed under my friend’s name, Alcatraz, Vacation or San Francisco? The solution I came up with is to divide my workflow into two different “layers”

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