Brent Rowlett wrote:
Well do you want to save the file or not? Just turn your computer off and you lose everything. Does that answer your question? You're going in circles, friend.
To refresh your memory, I was responding to the question
Catnlion wrote:
So if I shoot RAW and do something in PP to it then do I have to make a JPEG out of it to see what the finished product looks like then delete, reprocess, recovert until I save a JPEG I like?
There was nothing in this question defining 'finished product'.
You seem to assume it is a print. I believe that is doubtful;
Catnlion hasn't returned to confirm or deny that, but if it were a print, there would be no reason to save the file when printing from the same system, and not necessarily a reason to save as a JPEG if printing from another system.
I think it is more likely that the JPEG file itself is the 'finished product' - but that is not relevant to my question, which was "why can't you tell from the screen in front of your nose that the JPEG is good?", thinking that a cycle of 'create JPEG', inspect, rinse, repeat is not very efficient. My question, not directed at you, was addressing that issue.
Maybe I'm unusual, but virtually never do I return to a project once I've exported a JPEG, and I hate to litter my file system with XCF {gimp equivalent of PSD} files, so your repeated focusing on PSD was a detour of a detour, and not something I was interested in pursuing.
