Oi,
Due to the "bad" influence of some people who shall remain nameless, I got myself a copy of Photoshop CS5 less than 2 weeks ago. I started to play around with some images I had already started to process in Lightroom: added layers, masks, filters, adjustments, etc.. Then I saved the file (before the resizing/sharpening of course).
800mb....
Then I started to read around to find out how people stored their images, and what they actually kept and deleted. If I read 15 items, I found 15 different options, with not much explanation as of "why or why not". Some keep all their original unprocessed RAW files, some only keep their processed Photoshop files, some save as Tiff, some as PSD, some flattened, some with all layers, some 16 bits, some 8 bits, some JPG, some keep only their original "master file", some keep the Photoshop file for every "output" they generate.
I know that I keep way too many images right now, and I know that hard drives are not that expensive. Yet I am pretty sure there is some way to store files that would make sense and minimize storage space required without sacrificing image quality and options for "future work".
So all of this to ask pretty much: what do you keep, how, and especially why.







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