Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I will need the image vault to be on the external HD's. I was hoping to leave them turned off while I did the original work on the files and then transfer them to the "deep" storage. On 04/11/2006, at 15:29, Matt Powell wrote: > On 11/3/06, Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au> wrote: >> Dear all, > >> So at the moment I thought: >> 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) > > Aperture (and maybe Lightroom) will create an image vault that > contains all of your RAW images, and you can set up a folder on > another hard disk to hold a backup copy of this vault. I would keep > all of the 'b' and 'c' files as RAWs in this vault - you never know > when you'll go back and find something you wish you could print > larger. Besides, converting to a reasonable JPG won't save you that > much room over DNG/RAW. > > Anything you want to alter further in Photoshop is exported as a TIFF > by Aperture/Lightroom. You would save (and backup) a final copy of > this file (as a TIFF, again) - this is the one you'll go back to for > printing down the road. > > -- > MP > wooderson@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information