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Background

The other day, I promised you my aritcle on GTD and Photoshop - so here it is.

I started RYNO Digital, with friend and (really amazing) photographer Ryan Michael Kelly. I have since sold the company to Ryan and moved back to Detroit, to be near my friends and family and work towards my MBA.

While I was running RYNO I created a system to handle our incoming images, based on David Allen’s GTD method.

GTD (for those that don’t know) stands for Getting Things Done.

Application

An image is just like anything else that you might use the GTD method with. It has tasks to be accomplished and it has contexts, or areas, that those tasks need to be applied to. David calls these actions and contexts.

I created this chart (available in PDF) to aid in workflow.

So, let me explain. On the left, are a list of actions and on the right are all the contexts of an image to apply these to. On the top is a spot to write in the image name.

Using the chart is easy, apply the actions to any applicable contexts:

• Open the image
• Adjust the contrast with Levels (set white and black points)
• Adjust the color with Curves
• Add on a layer of Grain
• Liquify (reshape the image)
• Heal and Clone
• Dodge & Burn
• Sharpen
• Done

Some screencasts are coming soon.