Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Alastair, FWIW, here is my workflow. 1) Take the pictures--no chimping or deleting in-camera. I shoot RAW exclusively. 2) Copy the contents of the CF card(s) into a "Canon dump" folder on my computer. 3) Go through that folder with a suitable image browsing tool (ACDSee when working on the PC, Photo Mechanic when working on the Mac) to weed out the losers. 4) The remaining RAW images are copied to an external hard drive as backup no. 1. 5) I then open the images in Photoshop and make all the levels, cropping and other corrections as needed. The resulting images are saved as TIFF files and are also backed up to the external hard drive. 6) The images that I want to print or post on the web are sharpened and saved as PSD files. 7) The images that I post on the web are of course converted to JPEGs. A second backup of the RAW and TIFF images that have resulted from the above is made by burning these files onto archival DVDs (which I keep in my office). Once this second backup is made, I delete the files from the computer, keeping only the PSD files there. I do not backup the PSD files, since the only difference between those and the TIFFs is the sharpening, so if my internal hard drive crashes, I can easily recreate the images from the TIFFs which are backed up in two places (external HD and DVDs). Hope this helps. Nathan Alastair Firkin wrote: > Dear all, > Now that my digital work will be more than happy snaps from the Diglux > 1, I have been considering "workflow". How should I work, please help. > > My initial plan was to have enough storage and to that end, I have > bought 4 x 300 gig hard drives to store and sort the images. > > I have been using iView and iPhoto, BUT iView does not allow you to > look at full images from RAW files anymore (part of the Microsoft take > over and the bundling with Phase One software), so I have been playing > with Adobe: I bought CS2 some time ago and "filing" in bridge and > using "camera RAW SEEMS a good combination, BUT the RAW work seems > better at the moment in LightRoom beta: any comments. > > So at the moment I thought: > 1. take images in RAW > 2. transfer to a "holding" folder titled "new images" > 3. Review images in ? iView/lightroom/aperture/bridge > 4. Rate images as a)junk to trash, b)record image never likely to make > a print bigger than 6 x 4 and c)"potential" images > 5. Throw out the a images, convert the b images to jpeg files and keep > the c images as RAW (but what kind of RAW I have yet to fully understand) > 6. Label the images with key words (does anyone have a standard > "list") and comments: > -- here I have a problem. iView had a great comments area BUT it does > not seem to "map" to the comments area of the other programmes. > Putting comments in the Bridge area seems more flexible, but they do > not turn up in iView --- I am thinking my days using iView are now > numbered, and this saddens me as I just paid for an upgrade, and its > been a good workhorse for so long and I have so many comments already > filed in it including all the FOM2 stuff > 7. transfer the folders to the hard disc stores : this perhaps should > be done before labels but I think bridge or lightroom can "follow" > where they have gone and are "stored" > 8. remove the images from the new image folder to free up the > computers basic hard disc again > 9. Begin working on the c images, and make displays for web and printing > 10. go out and do it again. > > As you can see, I want to start with a basic plan and keep to it for > at least 12 months to try to get some order and filing in my system, > rather than the current mess. > > Thanks for any comments and help > > Cheers and here's luck > > Alastair > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands Opportunistic Image Acquisition General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com and http://www.greatpix.eu Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog SUPPORT FREEDOM OF SPEECH, BUY DANISH PRODUCTS!