Editing & Delivery
Wedding photo and video post-production is the crucial process of editing and enhancing the images and footage captured on your big day. This stage is essential to transforming raw moments into polished, visually stunning memories that truly reflect the beauty, emotion, and story of your wedding. From color correction and retouching to cinematic video editing, post-production brings your special day to life in its most captivating form.
Your Wedding Post Production Steps
Step 1 - Backup & Upload
As soon as your event is complete, your images are immediately downloaded to a secure local hard drive and uploaded to our production server, which is configured with RAID 5 for both speed and redundancy. This ensures your photos are protected from the very beginning.
We follow the industry-standard 3-2-1 backup system, which means your images are stored in three separate copies, with at least one stored off-site. This method provides maximum protection and peace of mind for your wedding memories.
Since we shoot in RAW format to preserve the highest quality, a full wedding can generate between 100 to 200 gigabytes of data before any editing or conversion begins. Once all backups are safely completed, we begin the image selection process to curate the most beautiful moments from your day.
Step 2 - Image Selection
To begin the image selection process, we utilize specialized software designed to efficiently catalog and browse large RAW files. This powerful tool helps us group similar and duplicate images, making it easier to review and manually choose the best versions. We can also tag photos with colors, keywords, and star ratings to stay organized throughout the editing workflow.
Our first step is to cull images “in,” selecting the sharpest, most flattering, and emotionally resonant shots. We eliminate any blurry photos, awkward expressions, or excessive duplicates to ensure the strongest visual narrative of your wedding day.
Next, we perform a second pass to cull “out” any images that don’t enhance the overall story. This final round of refining ensures that every photo we deliver is intentional, polished, and meaningful—capturing the true essence of your wedding day.
Step 3 - Color Correction
Color and tonal correction are essential to polishing a final image. During this stage, we take each individual picture and analyze its color, contrast, exposure, white balance, black and white points, highlights and shadow detail, and clarity.
We start this process by working on exposure, or the overall luminance of the image. We shoot as correct as possible in-camera but will make adjustments on our calibrated monitors to get the best results. Next, we will fix an image’s color temperature. Weddings are often shot in mixed lighting situations. This will sometimes cause an image to have a mixture of colors that don’t necessarily blend together. Lastly, we will add sharpening to an image, and noise reduction in two photos that were taken in low-light situations. This will ensure the highest quality digital file that can make beautiful prints.
Step 4 - Sneak Peak
You’ll receive a stunning sneak peek of 25 beautifully edited photos within 5–7 days of your wedding—perfect for sharing and reliving those first magical moments!
Step 5 - Creative Edits
Our Signature Edited photos stand apart from traditional wedding images. Each one is captured with our unique editing style in mind from the very beginning. These photos go far beyond basic color correction and cropping—they involve detailed, artistic enhancements that require significantly more time and attention to perfect.
Step 6 - Convert to Full Res JPEGs
After color correction, we convert your images into a high-quality, usable format—full-resolution JPEGs—perfect for sharing, printing, and preserving your memories.
Step 7 - Create Online Gallery
Once our editing process is complete, we create a personalized online gallery to showcase your full-resolution images. This beautifully designed, password-protected gallery makes it easy and exciting to share your wedding memories with family and friends. With full-screen viewing and a sleek, user-friendly layout, it's the perfect way to relive and celebrate your special day.
Step 8 - Download Your Images
You can now download all of your photos with ease. We provide two resolution options: full resolution for the highest quality, and a web-optimized version perfect for social media sharing. For the best results—especially for printing—we always recommend downloading the full-resolution files.
Step 9 - Receive a Custom USB
If your wedding package includes a USB—or if you choose to purchase one—you’ll receive a beautifully designed USB drive in a sleek metal case, delivered by mail. It will contain all of your professionally edited photos in full resolution, ready to enjoy and preserve for years to come.
Step 10 - Album Design
If you have an Album with your wedding package or if you purchase an album now you can make your selections through your online gallery. If you hover over the photo you choose, you can click on the heart symbol to favorite the photo. We will be notified once you complete this and will be able to start designing your album layout.
Digital Delivery (modern, secure, easy)
Easy access to your final edited high-resolution images. You can conveniently share your photos with family and friends with a click of a button with your dedicated gallery app.
DELIVER VIA DOWNLOAD
Allows client to download their photos directly from your professional gallery.
- Fast & Secure viewing
- Download from anywhere
- Three download options
- Download one .zip file.
FAVORITE WAY TO PROOF
Fast & Easy online proofing with the favorite system.
- Select your favorites for album or prints
- Share your favorites with our album design team
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