RAW files saved as a copy are HUGE!

[Janice]

Why does a new RAW file come into Lightroom from my camera at about 8mp and then goes to PHotoshop for editing... leaving a copy on lightroom called xxxxx-edit... which is about 27mb?

Even if I do nothing to it and zero all settings.. its still makes the copy and saves it with the -edit tag next to the original RAW file at that huge size.

Therefore by the time I have imported one RAW file, sent to photoshop as a copy and then saved the result as a TIFF.....I have huge amounts of filesize.... something like 52mb! with 3 copies of just one picture.

 

[Marcel]

the increase files will be uncompressed TIFFS.

That's the way they are im afraid Big

I keep all my processed shots like that, with layers, so theyre a minimum of 40 odd meg.

No wonder Im running out of space

 

[RobertP]

Wonder what other people do?

I've often read threads like this and wonder does everyone usually do so much with their images? I don't enjoy editing so hardy ever use PS. I have RAWs that are from the camera and 'best' jpegs that have been spat out by Rawshooter after I've finished tweaking. That is it - no other versions! The large jpegs get uploaded if prints are wanted and get viewed on screen. Editing for the forum consists of size reduction a quick sharpen and a 'save as' in Acdsee 4 - an old but fast version.

I doubt there are more than a dozen tiffs on my computer!

 

[Marcel]

I keep three versions now.

The Raw, the processed TIFF, and the websized version (makes it much easier to browse through a thumbnail of small 100k jpegs, than 100meg tiffs )

 

[Jonnyreb]

I now only keep:

The original RAW on one drive

The editted TIFF on another drive

The itty-bitty jpeg on the desktop or laptop depending on which machine i've used to edit.

I'm also needing a jolt of "binning-the-crap-immediately" discipline as i find I'm sentimentally attached to all the pics I take

 

[Janice]

so which do i bin then.......the converted from lightroom ones?
those are the big ones.. must getused to doing that in my workflow!

 

[Jonnyreb]

If you never use the TIFS theres no point keeping them. Which do you edit from ?

 

[Janice]

I keep tiffs as my finally processed large files for printing.

 

[Jonnyreb]

Sorry - i wasn't clear - is the lightroom tiff redundant or the editted version?

 

[Janice]

This was far too long ago........I havnt got a clue what anyone is on about now.............and I started the thread!! :shake: