I would welcome any comments regarding my method of file management.
I always shoot in RAW, I download using Fast Stone Image Viewer, I delete any obviously poor shots and then I close Fast Stone and Open Adobe Bridge.
In Bridge I Batch rename or rename all the images, then I look again to decide which are best and delete the poor ones (I think the image quality is better in Bridge than Fast Stone).
I would welcome any comments on this approach so far.
Next I decide if I am going to make either a print or an image for BPN in which case I set Adobe Bridge to either 180dpi or 72dpi. I crop, adjust exposure and contrast and ensure nothing important is blown ( I use the Alt key when adjusting exposure).
Next I go to Photoshop CS2, make any necessary adjustments starting with clone, crop, shadows highlights, Levels, Hue, saturation, selective colour etc. Eventually I sharpen the image (I often use layers) once or twice depending upon the size of the image, then resize to 800 and then I use smart sharpen. Next I use the Save for Web and save the file in my BPN folder. If I have made a file for a print I save as a large JPEG or a Photoshop File. I do not make a TIFF, I store the original RAW file in various folders such as Birds, Insects , Dragonflies etc
By storing my originals as RAW am I missing a trick by not saving a TIFF. I suppose if I did save the largest size image as a TIFF I would not need to go back to the RAW and make all the post processing steps again but am I right in thinking the storage of TIFF files would use up much more space than RAW files. If storing of TIFFS is a better option would it be wise to just keep TIFFs and delete the RAW files?
Any feedback would be welcome, I suspect I may be making my image processing and file management unnecessarily labour intensive.
Jon