 It's so hot in here, and I don't know about you but today here in California. It is hot It's been over a hundred degrees for like the last eight days, and we are miserable But I'm happy because I'm here for you today. Let's start off with today's poll Today I want to know what camera are you shooting on are you Nikon? Canon Sony Something other than that maybe Fuji or Olympus leave your answer here in the card up above but today's episode isn't about that at all today's episode is about Efficiency and how we can work more efficiency. So Let me explain exactly what I mean by that recently I was working with a client in one-on-one and our one-on-one sessions and We've gotten to the point now where we are getting our images off of the camera into Lightroom and actually editing them awesome But now that the photos are edited. We're not doing anything else. We're not taking the images further We're not printing them. We're not really doing anything with them So as a way to kind of inspire or organize what we're gonna do with the pictures now that we've found what our favorites are Made some changes to them. What can we do to help us better organize what to do with them next? So I've come up with a solution because I'm a little OCD like that What we're gonna do is use our collections to help organize ourselves into projects And so we're gonna jump in and we're gonna create a Projects bin. This is basically just a container That's gonna hold all of the projects that we have to work on now Projects are gonna differ from person to person and you might have projects that I'm not thinking of but I want to keep this as simple as Possible and for that reason I've come up with three projects that I think everyone will probably find themselves in at one form or another the first project is Prints okay, that's probably the obvious one So we're gonna create a container for all of our things that we want to print Now the way you could organize prints is you can organize them by person like if you have grandma or Your mom as is the case for me. My mom is always asking me for pictures I can create a folder bin just for my mom and anytime I want to print something for I can stick it in there But a more practical way aside from doing it by the person is doing it by the size so instead I'll create and Three two one the light is gonna go bye-bye because it's dead. Oh, maybe not Well, maybe so maybe not so Maybe not So not organizing your photos by size in other words if you're gonna print 4 by 6 is 8 by 10 16 by 20s Create collections that allow you to organize your pictures based on the size of the prints that you want to get done Ta-da, and we're back. So where were we we were talking about organizing our photos by size 8 by 10s 4 by 6s, etc But that's more of the obvious thing. So once we're done Setting up our collections for the prints that we want to do in the sizes of prints Here is our second Project that we can create so the next project that I would consider making is for photo books photo books are really Awesome, you can use them as gifts You can give them to family members It's a great way to collect all of the pictures either from a trip a vacation or just over the year that year So go ahead and create photo books for those types of things But we need a place to store them so I can create maybe a photo book for Africa or maybe for Italy or For wherever the places that you've been create a photo book for that project Lastly or number three we can create slide shows so I want to create a project for all of my slide shows and Again, maybe that's a slide show for Africa or slide show for a photo book something like that Now that I have these three Projects and their respective bins in place All we have to do now is just add our photos to those bins and what's great about this is if the same picture Is going to find its way printed and in a photo book and in a slide show That's okay Collections you can have the same photo and as many collections as you want and what's great about this is those photos don't get Duplicated on your hard drive. So it's a great way to organize these edited files Into projects that we now need to do things with without creating these excess files and folders and things like that But the idea of this whole entire thing is to inspire you now to take these photos that we've edited and do something with them Share them with the ones you love share them with the world on the internet share them with I Don't know whoever share them with me. I'd love to see your photos That's all I've got for you today. Hopefully you enjoyed this video if you did give it a thumbs up as always Thank you so much for your comments Subscribes all that good jazz. Don't forget to follow us on social media like Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and all that goodness That's it my name is Adam. I'm out