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dee1985

dee1985

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Hey can someone help me out ?
When shooting in RAW large, once your photo is done being edited, how do you save it so you have the best resolution if you wanted to enlarge to say a 8x10 or a 11x14 ?
 
I keep the dimension the same as it came out the camera, and save it as a Tiff file. From here I will then reopen any of my Tiff files resize to whatever I want and re-save as a Jpeg for printing. But the original Tiff file stays as it was.
 
What Barry said. Or if you have a 'non-destructive' image editor like Lightroom, don't do anything until you are ready to output the jpg at the size you want to print at.
 
Nikon Fan said:
I keep the dimension the same as it came out the camera, and save it as a Tiff file. From here I will then reopen any of my Tiff files resize to whatever I want and re-save as a Jpeg for printing. But the original Tiff file stays as it was.
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Ok, so you save it as a tiff file, and edit after its a tiff, and save the finished edit as a tiff, and save a copy in jpeg for printing. An enlargements do best this way? Thank you so much for the feedback I find this a little stressful.
 
dbr1066 said:
What Barry said. Or if you have a 'non-destructive' image editor like Lightroom, don't do anything until you are ready to output the jpg at the size you want to print at.
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I have Lightroom 4, but the one I use is adobe photoshop elements 10. I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean. Sorry, I'm new to all of this. And trying to teach myself. You guys are very helpful.
 
dbr1066 said:
What Barry said. Or if you have a 'non-destructive' image editor like Lightroom, don't do anything until you are ready to output the jpg at the size you want to print at.
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I have lightroom4 and I use adobe photoshop elements 10. I'm not sure I understand what you mean :(.
 
dee1985 said:
Ok, so you save it as a tiff file, and edit after its a tiff, and save the finished edit as a tiff, and save a copy in jpeg for printing. An enlargements do best this way? Thank you so much for the feedback I find this a little stressful.
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Close - I open my RAW files, edit it and then save it as a Tiff file, when I want to print a image or post it on a website, I will reopen my Tiff file, size it to whatever I require and save it as a Jpeg for that purpose, once I have printed on put on web, I will then delete the Jpeg, and if I need that image again I will go back to my original Tiff file, otherwise you will end up with loads of different versions of the same image on your computer.
 
In LR4, select your image, select virtual copy, move to Develop Module, muck about until you are happy, move to print, select size etc and print.

After that you can save as jpeg, or whatever you want, in your Pictures folder, if you feel the need.

With LR4, I never feel the need for Tiff saving but each to one's own.
 
Nikon Fan said:
Close - I open my RAW files, edit it and then save it as a Tiff file, when I want to print a image or post it on a website, I will reopen my Tiff file, size it to whatever I require and save it as a Jpeg for that purpose, once I have printed on put on web, I will then delete the Jpeg, and if I need that image again I will go back to my original Tiff file, otherwise you will end up with loads of different versions of the same image on your computer.
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Okay this is making more sense. Thank you for the step by step. I need it. :p
Usually for an email or web posting, it doesn't need to be more than 640 pixels high or long. Right? Is that good enough for the web so the image can't be stolen that way ?
And the math part of the sizing, could you enlighten me ? And again thank you sooooo much for all this information. Finally I feel like I'm getting it
 
Mikesphotaes said:
In LR4, select your image, select virtual copy, move to Develop Module, muck about until you are happy, move to print, select size etc and print.

After that you can save as jpeg, or whatever you want, in your Pictures folder, if you feel the need.

With LR4, I never feel the need for Tiff saving but each to one's own.
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I have LR4, but I find it difficult to get my photos uploaded to the program. So I just use photoshop elements 10 :/
 
dee1985 said:
I have LR4, but I find it difficult to get my photos uploaded to the program. So I just use photoshop elements 10 :/
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Insert the card or plug in the camera, press import. Done.
 
Ok, workflow for RAW. Everyone has their own, but this is mine.

Insert card into car reader, Lightroom usually auto opens to the import dialogue. If it doesn't, make sure you are in the library pane and click import on the bottom corner.

This will load all the photos from the card into Lightroom.

Once complete, choose a photo to edit and go into the develop module.

Do whatever you like to it, until you are happy.

Now time to export it ready for printing, uploading, burning to cd, whatever..

Click file, then export. This will bring up the export box, where you can choose the format, size, resolution and more.

For full res images for printing, I choose jpg, 100% quality. I've printed 30x40 prints without issue, you could go more.

You can save to tiff, but to be honest I never bother.

Click export and it will save the file to where you specified..

That's it..

You now have the original RAW file, untouched. All the edits you made are held in a separate sidecar .xmp file.
You also have the exported jpg.

Should you wish to make another edit of the same photo, you can do, in the develop module again.

Re export it under a different name.
You can do this as many times as you like.

If you think you will want to keep the raw edits, make sure you start a new virtual copy for each one, other wise the edits will overwrite the xmp file, and you will only have the last one.

The original RAW file is never touched.

This video may help with the basics


http://youtu.be/3t2NjkPdRoY
 
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TCR4x4 said:
Ok, workflow for RAW. Everyone has their own, but this is mine.

Insert card into car reader, Lightroom usually auto opens to the import dialogue. If it doesn't, make sure you are in the library pane and click import on the bottom corner.

This will load all the photos from the card into Lightroom.

Once complete, choose a photo to edit and go into the develop module.

Do whatever you like to it, until you are happy.

Now time to export it ready for printing, uploading, burning to cd, whatever..

Click file, then export. This will bring up the export box, where you can choose the format, size, resolution and more.

For full res images for printing, I choose jpg, 100% quality. I've printed 30x40 prints without issue, you could go more.

You can save to tiff, but to be honest I never bother.

Click export and it will save the file to where you specified..

That's it..

You now have the original RAW file, untouched. All the edits you made are held in a separate sidecar .xmp file.
You also have the exported jpg.

Should you wish to make another edit of the same photo, you can do, in the develop module again.

Re export it under a different name.
You can do this as many times as you like.

If you think you will want to keep the raw edits, make sure you start a new virtual copy for each one, other wise the edits will overwrite the xmp file, and you will only have the last one.

The original RAW file is never touched.

This video may help with the basics

http://youtu.be/3t2NjkPdRoY
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Thank you very much
It really is simple.
I prefer when someone shows me how to do something. Then I have no problem. But you put it down in words so perfectly you painted a picture
Thank you so much for bothering.
 
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