It's 11:47pm. The house is finally quiet.
You open Lightroom, tell yourself you'll just edit a few more, and three hours later, you're still at it. Exhausted, second-guessing every edit, and wondering how you got here.
You're booking more weddings than ever. That's the dream, right?! Except the editing queue doesn't care about your dreams. It just keeps growing.
You taught yourself how to edit in Lightroom Classic. You figured it out, and that took grit. But self-taught usually means you learned what to click, not how to make everything work together. And that gap? It's costing you hours you can't get back.
You're re-editing work at 10am that looked fine at midnight.
You're sitting out soccer games and school pickups to catch up on galleries.
You're editing every. single. image. because no one ever showed you how to batch.
You're capping your own income because you literally cannot picture adding one more wedding to the editing queue. Even just 1 extra wedding per month during peak season could be $18k-$30k left on the table.
And the only two options you know of are to suffer through it or pay someone else to do it.
I want to share with you a workflow that helped me edit 305 weddings last year alone!
You taught yourself to shoot, which means you also taught yourself to edit, and you're starting to realize there might be a whole workflow strategy you didn't know you were missing.
Wedding season feels like survival mode, and you spend more time stressing about galleries and deadlines than celebrating the wins.
You're confident behind the camera, it's the hours put in after the wedding that are stealing your time, and honestly, your love for the work you started this business to do.
You want to take on more bookings to increase your income, but you're maxed out because you think there's no way you can handle more editing.
Your bookings are increasing, and you love what you're building, but the editing queue is growing faster than you can keep up with, and nobody warned you about this part.
You've pulled more late-night editing sessions than you can count, and what looked great at midnight looked completely different by morning, so you start over. Again.
The word "batch editing" sounds amazing in theory, but you have no idea how to make it work for your images, so you're still culling and editing one photo at a time, like it's your full-time job. (It's not supposed to be.)

A wife, mom of 2, and full-time photo editor.
My first year in business, I edited 47 weddings. When my kids left for school, my work day started, and before I knew it, they were barreling back through the door. I'd get through dinner and bedtime routines and then go right back to editing. I was in over my head.
My wake-up call came when my husband started taking the kids to the park on weekends just to give me time to catch up.
Missing out on my children growing up was not something I was willing to compromise. It's literally why I started my business in the first place. So I took everything I knew and got really intentional about every move in Lightroom. How certain features, when used together, create a seamless workflow that actually works.
I went from 47 weddings my first year to 305 weddings edited last year, and I no longer spend my evenings or weekends editing. Talk about a glow up.
That's why I created The Editing Workflow. Knowing how to edit efficiently is the thing that changes everything — the late nights, the backlogs, the missed moments.
My business runs on speed and efficiency without sacrificing consistency or quality. And I built this course so yours can too.
I've edited over 500 weddings
My first year I edited 47 weddings, last year I edited 305!
My editing is scheduled around my family time, not the other way around. No evenings, no weekends.

"This was such a great investment because it gave me so much time back, and as a mom and business owner, time is so valuable.”
~ Ashley
Ashley Griffing Photography

"I am definitely saving more time, but the biggest thing The Editing Workflow has helped with is my confidence in diving into the actual editing. Because of the prep work I have learned in this course, I can attack a gallery in small pieces, which creates an overall more consistent result.
~ Taylor
Taylor Ann Photography

Editing is such a personal part of your business, and it's also the most time-consuming. Guessing your way through every gallery leads to inconsistency, re-editing, and time spent in Lightroom that could be spent doing literally anything else.
Self-taught photographers don't know what they don't know. That's where my training, years of experience, trial and error, and slight perfectionism are here to help.
When you started your business, you weren't handed a clear how-to guide, so I'm handing it to you now.
Give you time back! Less time in Lightroom, more time shooting. Which is the part of your job you love.
Give you room to breathe! It's designed to support your workload as you continue to grow your business.
Bring calm to your chaos! Knowing how to edit efficiently means you stay ahead of your editing queue, not buried in it.
Increase your income! When you have the availability to book more clients, that means more money. Take the number of months in your peak season, multiply it by what you charge per wedding, and that's how much more per year you could be putting in the bank.
Taylor gained More Confidence
"Because of the prep work I have learned in this course, it has helped with my confidence in diving into the actual editing."

Ashley used to edit one image at a time
"Before The Editing Workflow, it would take me hours upon hours to edit a wedding. I literally was editing my galleries one image at a time. I’m now able to edit images faster and more efficiently."

If by every november you're in survival mode, this is your sign to streamline your editing process and beat the burnout.

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