You'd actually be surprised at how "normal" your workflow is. I'm one of the Picturelife founders and found that actually a ton of people start with Aperture or Lightroom, review it, rate/filter/adjust etc, and then let it automatically push to Picturelife (or wherever they backup). We don't have Lightroom integration yet (just Aperture for now https://picturelife.com/learn/aperture ) so I'm not trying to sell you on anything, but your workflow is actually remarkably normal.