What are RPG Keys? An award winning programmable custom keyset, compatible with all major image editing software which will drastically speed up your workflow. We’ve got a special deal for Vertus customers, only through this link: Â Â Â save $48 and get a 60 day trial for just $10!!
What is your time worth to you?  Itâs the one thing youâll never be able to create more of, or claw back. Itâs also finite (you really do âspendâ time, so about the most previous commodity we have). The answer for me depends on what Iâd doing with that time, and editing and post-processing RAW files does not come high up the list of things Iâd like to âspendâ my time on. Anything I can do tweaking my workflow to minimise the time spent is a big win as far as Iâm concerned, so when I heard about RPG Keys a small lightbulb went on in my headâŠ. Itâs now turned into a million watt spotlight! Read more about how RPG Keys works for me below…
What’s the deal? Pay $10 to cover shipping, and you can get the 16 key set on an extended trial for 60 days. You’ve then got the option of continuing to use RPG keys as a subscriber at $19 per month, or buy the keyset outright for $349 (save another $50). There’s no contract, no commitment. If you don’t want to continue using it, just return the keyset after the trial period.
Do the math:Â I’m saving over 12 hours per month on time spent editing. Signed up on the subscriber model, works out I’m paying $1.47 for every hour I save, and that’s only on simple editing and correction work. I can only imagine what this tool could do for wedding photographers and re-touchers. If someone came to you with the proposition: for every $1.50 you give me, I’ll give you an extra hour in the day, you’d take it, right..?.. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Here you go!!
How RPG Keys works for me: A high proportion of my clients are still newspapers and magazines commissioning editorial for print reproduction, so the work they want me to do on the images I deliver is minimal. Adjust exposure and black point / highlights recovery to ensure thereâs no clipping in the histogram, tweak shadow / highlight levels , white balance when needed and Iâm done.
Despite that, Even the smaller jobs call for 2 or 3 hours editing, doing the minimal adjustments that the delivery specâ calls for. I was already using the key command short cuts within Aperture, my primary image editing software, and had further customised within the âcommandsâ menu. But it’s the ability to change a slider adjustment value (with a choice of 3 different increments, using the option buttons) with just one press of a button, thatâs really sped things up. No more dragging sliders!
It took less than an hour setting up the keypad â assigning functions and slider values to the keys, straight from the RPG presets. Then tweaking that and re-arranging the keys (which handily just pop off, so no need for a second set of blanks). I now have a key-set customised exactly to how I want it. As with any change, takes a bit of getting used to, and perhaps slowed me down initially but it was worth persevering.
I now find myself âtouch typingâ my way around the 16 key set and have cut my editing time by about one third, and thatâs with just about as basic a setup on my keys as you can get. I havenât even begun to explore the full functionality that RPG Keys offers – programming macros, actions, etc. If youâre doing more complicated work in Photoshop (more retouching than just correction), I can see that the efficiency saving that could be made using the bigger keyset could be seriously (work)life transforming.
For me, RPG Keys is a no-brainer. Iâm working smarter not harder and saving at least 3 hours a week for 48 weeks a year… thatâs nearly an entire working month I now have free to do whatever I want to be doing⊠which is currently spending time with the new arrivals in my family, and that time is priceless….          ~ Sam Friedrich, acumenimages.com
Check out the RPG Keys demo’ on YouTube
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