1 Reply Latest reply: May 31, 2013 8:57 PM by Noel Carboni RSS

    Camera RAW editing process

    frogmike Community Member

      So just a few questions here, I have a process where I go through my RAW D800 photos and do general touch-ups in camera, but have been wanting to do skin touch-ups in photoshop. My problem lies in the photo sizes (45mb per RAW photo to begin with). Is there any sort of way to make a workflow that would allow me to retain the raw photos and seperate photoshop files in a convenient manner?

      I'm simply looking to avoid having 2GB folder for just a few images, and wondering if there's maybe some appropriate file formats for that.

      Thanks

       

      Mike

        • 1. Re: Camera RAW editing process
          Noel Carboni Community Member

          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