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1. Re: Camera RAW editing process
Noel Carboni May 31, 2013 8:57 PM (in response to frogmike)I don't know what your specific needs for editing are, but if you could do your various touch-ups entirely in Camera Raw, the edits are stored as metadata (meaning a whole separate file need not be stored). Next time you open the file in Camera Raw it applies the metadata.
I store very few of my edited photos. I just open the raw files up again and do whatever minor additional prep is needed (e.g., sharpening) for use.
A product I don't use, but which is somewhat suited to this strategy is Adobe Lightroom. You might want to look into that.
By the way, this is the day and age of terabytes... A really, really big disk drive doesn't cost a whole lot any more. Even if you DO generate gigabytes of data you could, for example, store 1000 sessions that generate 3 GB of data on a 3 TB Western Digital MyBook external drive. Such drives cost a little over a hundred bucks. Or you could burn DVDs.
-Noel

