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Hi - I would be interested to hear of your work flow in the following situation please.

Once you have done some alterations in L3 and edited in Photoshop you will then have 2 or more of the same images in L3 ie: 1 of 1 or 1 of 2 etc.

Do you then delete the image 1 of 1 and export the image 1 of 2 or if not, please let me know what steps you then take.

Appreciate any help

Thanks

Dave
 
I suppose to a certain extent it will depend on what your doing. The bulk of my workload is weddings, so the images that go into photoshop from lightroom are usually having things fixed (cloning or fixing closed eyes etc) these I can do to the original image, virtual copies are usually used for variations, spot colour, split toning sepia etc, I would normally then export all to prepare a slideshow disk for the customer.
When I say original images, I am working from raw and do have everything backed up though before I start.
 
Hardly ever take images into PS but when I do it's done via LR and I keep the raw and the .psd file. Probably export from the psd but always have the raw to go back to.
 
Thanks Wayne and Andrew, so in Lightroom I guess the image 1 of 1 is the RAW file (or am I wrong in thinking this) and if I delete the 1 of 1 image will I be deleting the original RAW file.
I shoot RAW and then convert to DNG on Import and have always finished up in CS5 and saved or printed from there as this is what I am more familiar with.
Appreciate your help
dave
 
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When you delete in LR you get the option delete from LR or delete from disk, the former just removes the file from LR, the latter removes it totally from the hard drive (not a good idea) I almost never delete totally, I just delete the bad ones from LR, it's only the total failure like flash not fired or something that get removed from the hard drive.
 
Thanks Wayne for the clarification.
I have just read about 'stacking' where you can hide the image 1 of 1 behind the image 2 of 2 and this seems a good option to reduce the number of images in the filmstrip.
thanks
Dave
 
I only catalogue my raw files in Lightroom.Having made alterations in Lightroom I export as a 16 bit tiff.The raw file never gets touched again unless I want to do another variation on the same picture.
The 16 bit tiffs are just loaded into PS as and when I want to finish editing them.

I actually use Fastone image viewer for my original cull of the pictures if I have shot a lot during the day.They load up much much quicker in Fastone than they import into Lightroom.

Cheers
Gary
 
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