What do do after I shoot in Raw: Hi UH friends. I am beginning to shoot in Raw but at a loss as what to do with them after I put then in Bridge, do my color correcting and then moving...

Starr Loc: St. Louis, MO

Hi UH friends.

I am beginning to shoot in Raw but at a loss as what to do with them after I put then in Bridge, do my color correcting and then moving them to PS CS4. Not sure what to do after all the post processing. Convert them to JPGs and where do I store them? Back in iPhoto? What do you guy do?

Thank you again, for all your advise.

Len Van Hirtum Loc: Nashua, NH

Hello; when you say "PS4" do you mean Photoshop Ver. 4?

Until you save them as a JPEG you images don't lose the significant amount of data until you save them as JGEG. Some photographers set up a Work In Process folder (s)and either save as GIF, TIFF, etc. so they can back at work the image at a later date.

I am, by far, not an expert, so I recommend you read other's comments

Len

Wendy2 Loc: California

Save them as tiff or psd. That way you can open them as often as you want or need and there will be no loss of data.

Store them wherever it makes sense to you.

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

Starr wrote:

Hi UH friends.

I am beginning to shoot in Raw but at a loss as what to do with them after I put then in Bridge, do my color correcting and then moving them to PS CS4. Not sure what to do after all the post processing. Convert them to JPGs and where do I store them? Back in iPhoto? What do you guy do?

Thank you again, for all your advise.

You can also just save the adjustments you made to the raw file.
It writes or updates a "sidecar" file - basically a recipe for processing the image from the raw information. When you open it up again, that recipe will be applied to the image and you can adjust to your heart's content without any loss of "information".

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

GoofyNewfie wrote:

You can also just save the adjustments you made to the raw file.
It writes or updates a "sidecar" file - basically a recipe for processing the image from the raw information. When you open it up again, that recipe will be applied to the image and you can adjust to your heart's content without any loss of "information".

:thumbup: :thumbup:

JR1 Loc: Tavistock, Devon, UK

This has been covered many times, use the search facility above for RAW processing, saves many same questions

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/search.jsp?q=raw+processing&u=&s=0

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

Wendy2 wrote:

Save them as tiff or psd. That way you can open them as often as you want or need and there will be no loss of data.

Store them wherever it makes sense to you.

This is what most people do. You should choose which format makes sense to you - psd or tif. Most photographers save them as psd but some are starting to save more and more as tif because tif doesn't have a 2 GB file size limit and psd does. Not many people create a file that's that large though. Personally I use psd for layered images, and tif for HDR images since tif will also work with 32-bit images.

Workflow -

-Find file in Bridge
-Double click to open in ACR (raw)
-make adjustments (at the very least some sharpening)
-click open or if you know how to work with smart objects open as a smart object (I don't know if early CS does this)
-in CS do your filters, layers, text, watermarking, framing etc.
-press Ctrl-S to save as psd at the same location as the raw image with layers.
-File>save for web to save as a jpg and convert to sRGB for uploading to email, social media etc.
-or File>Save as to save as a high res jpg for printing. Make sure you do your proofing and resizing first then save for printing.

brucewells Loc: Central Kentucky

Starr wrote:

Hi UH friends.

I am beginning to shoot in Raw but at a loss as what to do with them after I put then in Bridge, do my color correcting and then moving them to PS CS4. Not sure what to do after all the post processing. Convert them to JPGs and where do I store them? Back in iPhoto? What do you guy do?

Thank you again, for all your advise.

Starr,

In the days of film, we always (nearly) took the film to be processed and have prints made of the negatives. That was the defacto way photography was done.

With digital photography, I changed my mind. Why should I print EVERY photo? Well, the most obvious response is "So I can show them off (share them) with friends and family.

With technology being the way it is, if I want to share a set of photos, I will export the images (which are still in raw format, but processed) from LightRoom to the place where they will be shared (DropBox, for example), and that's it.

In other words, I maintain the raw file (negative) and print it (export to a JPG) when I want to share it. I'm already expending energy (and disk space) to maintain/store the raw file. I don't want to take more time and disk space to keep a JPG image of a raw file I already have.

This is just the way I do it. It works for me.

Starr Loc: St. Louis, MO

JR1 wrote:

This has been covered many times, use the search facility above for RAW processing, saves many same questions

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/search.jsp?q=raw+processing&u=&s=0

Thanks, I'll do that.

tlbuljac Loc: Oklahoma

shooting in "RAW" has it's benefits if you are alone and the windows are closed...when finished take a shower and put your clothes back on

mdorn Loc: Portland, OR

Starr wrote:

Hi UH friends.

I am beginning to shoot in Raw but at a loss as what to do with them after I put then in Bridge, do my color correcting and then moving them to PS CS4. Not sure what to do after all the post processing. Convert them to JPGs and where do I store them? Back in iPhoto? What do you guy do?

Thank you again, for all your advise.

After all the post processing, ask yourself "would I print that and hang it on the wall for all to see?" If the answer is no, then delete it. If the answer is yes, then save a copy as JPEG on a different hard drive (i.e. external USB drive).

steve40 Loc: Asheville/Canton, NC, USA

I keep about 1 photo out of 100, the rest go to that little trash can on the side of my desktop. I have better things to do than let a bunch of 0's and 1's, create problems in my life.

MtnMan Loc: ID

Starr wrote:

Hi UH friends.

I am beginning to shoot in Raw but at a loss as what to do with them after I put then in Bridge, do my color correcting and then moving them to PS CS4. Not sure what to do after all the post processing. Convert them to JPGs and where do I store them? Back in iPhoto? What do you guy do?

Thank you again, for all your advise.

I recommend you get Lightroom and start with them there. You can create an import preset that will employ the things your camera normally does to jpegs; e.g. white balance, saturation adjustment, sharpening etc. You can have the preset convert them to DNG files when it does so. Several experts recommend doing so for several reasons.

Wahawk Loc: NE IA

tlbuljac wrote:

shooting in "RAW" has it's benefits if you are alone and the windows are closed...when finished take a shower and put your clothes back on

:thumbup: :thumbup: :lol: :lol:

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

mdorn wrote:

After all the post processing, ask yourself "would I print that and hang it on the wall for all to see?" If the answer is no, then delete it. If the answer is yes, then save a copy as JPEG on a different hard drive (i.e. external USB drive).

A lot would depend on the size of your house and how much wall space is available. :D