How Outsourced Wedding Photo Editing Works

Outsource your wedding photo editing in four steps: send a Lightroom Smart Preview catalog of about 1.2GB, your editor learns your style from weddings you edited yourself, a preview set comes back the next morning, and the full gallery syncs back onto your original RAW files in 3–5 working days.

Four Steps From Memory Card to Finished Gallery

Export Smart Previews in about five minutes, upload in 6–8 minutes, receive 80–100 finished preview frames the next morning, then the full edited catalog with every slider still live.

Sending and Receiving Your Files

Send a Smart Preview catalog or full RAW folders through Dropbox, Google Drive or WeTransfer. Edits come back as a Lightroom catalog that reconnects to your RAW files, with JPEGs on request.

Lightroom Smart Previews, Explained

A Smart Preview is a lightweight DNG proxy, about 1MB a frame and capped at 2,560 pixels, that carries the full RAW editing pipeline. Your editor works on the proxies and your master files never leave your drive.