| beejaybee |
| (Marvin) |
| 04/05/2008 09:32 |
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Re: Photo archiving
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But if you're happy with how the picture turned out, don't you find it a pain having to go back to RAW, or do you have such a good workflow that it doesn't really add any extra time?
Post processing is rather subjective - unless I was working for a third party (in which case I'd keep TIFFs, until the job was wrapped up) I'd probably want to do it slightly differently the next time through.
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Also, is a possible to save the adjustments you have made to the RAW file or when you open it up again do you have to start again with adjusting the white balance etc?
I think this depends on your camera & software. If you use certain recent Canon cameras with Canon's DPP software, there is a "sidecar file" which gets attached to the CR2 (raw) file describing the changes made so they will be applied again exactly the same next time you open the image with DPP. The CR2 file itself isn't altered, so you won't gain the same benefit when using a third party application (unless the application is sidecar enabled). Still you could export 16-bit TIFF from DPP if you wanted to fossilize the changes applied.