Workflows

How to put Expedit to work

The intention of Expedit is not to remove your creative touch from the editing process, but to automate the boring, repetitive 90% of the work and leave the last 10% to your own final touches.

Usage Guide

Once Expedit is downloaded, this is the whole loop: one-time setup, then a handful of menu items per import.

01

Connect & train, once

Open the Expedit menu bar app and point it at your Lightroom catalog. Train your model from your editing history: your whole catalog, or just the years that reflect how you edit now. Everything runs on your Mac; your photos never leave it.

02

Install the plugin, once

Choose Install Lightroom Plugin… in the Expedit menu bar, then quit and reopen Lightroom Classic. Its tools appear under Library ▸ Plug-in Extras and File ▸ Plug-in Extras.

03

Cull

Import a shoot, select it all, and run Cull Selection. It groups bursts into takes and marks the strongest frames for your review, learning from the photos you've kept before. Nothing is ever deleted.

04

Apply your style

Run Apply User Predictions. Expedit predicts and applies your develop settings to every selected photo: one undoable history step per batch.

05

Denoise the noisy ones

Run Batch: Apply AI Denoise. High-ISO frames get Lightroom's AI Denoise at the strength you set for their ISO, automatically, while you do something else.

06

Touch up a few, then sync

Refine a handful of photos by hand, select the batch, and run Sync Corrections. Expedit reads those corrections and re-applies the updated look to the untouched photos from the same shoot, each change an undoable step. The photos you corrected stay as you left them.

07

Hide faces before you share

Strangers in the frame? Select those photos and run Batch: Censor Faces. Untick anyone you want to keep; the rest get a censored copy next to the original, still a RAW you can edit, stacked with it.

08

Export

Select the batch and export. Ready to share, post, and send.

Efficiency meets Artistry.

Ryan travels often and comes back from trips with thousands of RAW photos. With a 9-5 job and other commitments in life, it's too time-consuming to keep up with editing the growing backlog. The next trip always adds more photos before the last ones are finished.

Case Study

Ryan's trip workflow

Ryan loves to have his photos accessible for personal memories: to send something on WhatsApp, or show them while telling a story. But large RAWs eat up storage on a mobile device, don't load readily, and look bland if fully unedited.

A trip used to mean a multi-month editing backlog. Now the whole import, thousands of RAW files, is culled, edited in his style, and export-ready in days. Here's the exact sequence, start to finish.

Before Expedit Months of evenings combing through a growing backlog, one photo at a time.
With Expedit Days from import to a folder of finished, shareable photos, with the creative decisions still his.
1 · Import Back from a trip, Ryan imports the trip folder into Lightroom, RAW files only.
2 · Predict everything He selects the entire import and runs Apply User Predictions. Every photo gets his editing style in one pass.
3 · Cull Cull Selection groups the bursts into takes, stars the frames worth a look, and sets the near-duplicates and misses aside for a quick review pass.
4 · Denoise Batch: Apply AI Denoise enhances every high-noise photo at the strength he set for its ISO, unattended.
5 · Set the camera profile He runs Batch: Apply Camera Profile on the whole import. It offers his usual, Adobe Landscape, and only the profile changes: his sliders stay put.
6 · Touch up favourites The import is now ~90% done. He hand-finishes a few photos per shoot, then runs Sync Corrections to spread those corrections to the untouched shoot-mates.
7 · Export Select all, export. The whole trip is edited, ready to share, post, and put on his website.
The result Days instead of months, and every automated step is an ordinary, undoable Lightroom edit.

The Social Polish.

When he wants to post to social media, Ryan simply scrolls through the already edited photos, picks out the one or two stars, applies some final touches, and shares. It's much faster than combing through the original catalog: the 90% is done, leaving only the creative 10% for him.