Photography Q & A -- RAW Files
Here is a question sent in by one of the visitors to our site.
Do you save your Raw files as well as your jpeg? I’ve heard that I should save all of my Raw files, but they take up so much space and it’s so hard to keep track of what’s where. Also, the Raw files don’t show up as pictures in my folders, so unless I specifically name them, I don’t know what they are until I open them up in Lightroom or PS. Any advice?
ALL RAW files worth saving should be saved. After all, they are your negatives –your original captures. I’ve found that as I learn more about digital processing, I can revisit my raw images and create better tonality and do more creative effects with my images. RAW can be saved as PSD’s while adjusting them in Photoshop, and then saved to TIFs afterwards to keep all the data in place. Or, they can be saved as jpg’s to post with emails or to a web site once they are manipulated and it will never effect the actual raw data source (if you have saved the RAW file to your hard drive in a special folder). They will still remain as sharp as they were captured.
JPGs are not the best file type for print but work well for the web. Repeated saves noticeably degrade them. So, once I’ve saved as a JPG, I put them into a file to UPLOAD only, never saving them again. Also, I make sure to backup all my RAW files in an external hard drive.
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