 Carolyn V Watson |
Raw Files Do you save your Raw files as well as your jpeg? I've heard that I should save all of my Raw files, but they take up so much space and it's so hard to keep track of what's where. Also, the Raw files don't show up as pictures in my folders, so unless I specifically name them, I don't know what they are until I open them up in Lightroom or PS. Any advice?
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
That's why people use Lightroom. And you're seeing why keywording is important to many people. Not everybody saves Raw files. Not everybody has the same way of doing things with their own files. You only need to do as much as you as need, to get your files to do what you need them to do. Clear as a picture.
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- Carlton Ward Contact Carlton Ward Carlton Ward's Gallery |
After an initial run-through of my Raw files, I delete the obvious throwaways and save the rest. I have two external hard drives and I keep duplicate folders of my Raw images in. Hard drives are so inexpensive now. 1 terabyte hard drives are selling for $100 and that's a lot of storage space for very little $$. I am also a backup fanatic as I know the pain of losing photos over the years doing digital photography. My procedure goes as follows. Download my 4GB CF card (via firewire) using Adobe Photo Downloader (I select my folder and name for these images) and also select the "save copies to" button and select my other hard drive, then Get Photos. The firewire is very fast and my hard drives are also firewire. Firewire provides a more stable and faster connection than USB does. I often go back through old folders and find little gems that I glossed over after 1st downloading only to later re-discover them. My recent photo of an elephant that made it as a finalist was over 2 years old and I had just forgotten about it. Hope this helps!
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Rick Bianco |
Yes I save all of the RAW files I do not delete for the obvious reasions, like too blured or totaly unusable in some fashion. Then I save them in two places. One on a DVD and one on a portable external hard drive. That way I can always go back and edit or re-edit my shots later and I don't loose any file information from the original shot.
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Bunny Snow |
ALL RAW FILES worth saving should be saved. After all, they are your negatives --your original captures. I've found that as I learn more about digital processing, I can revisit my raw images and creating better tonality and do more creative effects with my images. RAW can be saved as PSD's while adjusting them in Photoshop, and then saved to TIFs afterwards to keep all the data in place. Or, they can be saved as jpg's to post with emails or to a web site once they are manipulated and it will never effect the actual raw data source (if you have saved the RAW file to your hard drive in a special folder). They will still remain as sharp as they were captured. JPGs are LOUSY. Repeated saves noticeably degrades them. Hence, once saving to a JPG, I put them into a file to UPLOAD only, never saving them again. AND, after some seriousy mistakes, I now always save my RAW images to a second hard drive in special folders I have created.
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