My wife and I have decided to travel extensively in retirement. In the last several years we have been to Australia, New Zealand, China, south East Asia, Peru and Ecuador. This year we will visit Cuba and an African safari. On each of these trips I normally take 3 to 500 photos. When I get home I use Photomechanic to quickly review them and I typically transfer about 150 to Lightroom for editing and often a few into Photoshop for manipulation. The question that I have is what do most folks do with these pictures. Asking family and friends to sit around and look at 150 or more of your favorite photos seem quite intrusive. I have started to generate coffee table books using Lightroom Blurb or Apple books and this seem to be working. Any other ideas.

AFPhoto,

What to do with travel photos? My workflow is similar. My end results go two directions.

First is a gallery wall in my office. I made a set of eight frames that have slots that allow me to quickly slide 13x19 prints in and out. I painted the wall gallery gray and hung gallery lights from IKEA. After a trip I pick eight favorites, print them on a Canon Pro-100. I enjoy looking at them until the next trip. Sometimes I invite others to look at my prints but the truth is that there is not a lot of traffic through my home office.

Second is new to me. You write that you use Lightroom and Photoshop. Assuming your are on the $10 plan, you have Portfolio. It took me a full day to figure Portfolio out and I needed Adobe's Terry White Youtube tutorials to do it. Now I have a system, controlled by LR Classic, to put images on https://billsprague.myportfolio.com/. I've printed business cards with that link so when (rarely!) asked by fellow travelers, I can invite them to view my work.

A side benefit to the Adobe Portfolio method is that it works on anything, anywhere. If someone wants to see pictures of your last trip, you can use their phone, tablet or computer. Even newer 4K "smart" TVs can do it.

AFPhoto,

What to do with travel photos? My workflow is similar. My end results go two directions.

First is a gallery wall in my office. I made a set of eight frames that have slots that allow me to quickly slide 13x19 prints in and out. I painted the wall gallery gray and hung gallery lights from IKEA. After a trip I pick eight favorites, print them on a Canon Pro-100. I enjoy looking at them until the next trip. Sometimes I invite others to look at my prints but the truth is that there is not a lot of traffic through my home office.

Second is new to me. You write that you use Lightroom and Photoshop. Assuming your are on the $10 plan, you have Portfolio. It took me a full day to figure Portfolio out and I needed Adobe's Terry White Youtube tutorials to do it. Now I have a system, controlled by LR Classic, to put images on https://billsprague.myportfolio.com/. I've printed business cards with that link so when (rarely!) asked by fellow travelers, I can invite them to view my work.

A side benefit to the Adobe Portfolio method is that it works on anything, anywhere. If someone wants to see pictures of your last trip, you can use their phone, tablet or computer. Even newer 4K "smart" TVs can do it.

My wife and I have decided to travel extensively in retirement. In the last several years we have been to Australia, New Zealand, China, south East Asia, Peru and Ecuador. This year we will visit Cuba and an African safari. On each of these trips I normally take 3 to 500 photos. When I get home I use Photomechanic to quickly review them and I typically transfer about 150 to Lightroom for editing and often a few into Photoshop for manipulation. The question that I have is what do most folks do with these pictures. Asking family and friends to sit around and look at 150 or more of your favorite photos seem quite intrusive. I have started to generate coffee table books using Lightroom Blurb or Apple books and this seem to be working. Any other ideas.

My wife and I have decided to travel extensively in retirement. In the last several years we have been to Australia, New Zealand, China, south East Asia, Peru and Ecuador. This year we will visit Cuba and an African safari. On each of these trips I normally take 3 to 500 photos. When I get home I use Photomechanic to quickly review them and I typically transfer about 150 to Lightroom for editing and often a few into Photoshop for manipulation. The question that I have is what do most folks do with these pictures. Asking family and friends to sit around and look at 150 or more of your favorite photos seem quite intrusive. I have started to generate coffee table books using Lightroom Blurb or Apple books and this seem to be working. Any other ideas.