Best way to deliver negatives if shooting RAW?

[marissa_c._boucher]

After years of shooting JPG, we're starting to shoot RAW starting

this year for all our wedding and portrait work.

 

With that said, in the past we would deliver negatives to clients in

JPG format on a DVD. Some of those images fully processed, some not.

 

Now that we're shooting RAW, I'm looking to find the quickest,

easiest way to deliver negatives on disc so that they are at least

in a printable, viewable format.

 

My question is this, for the images that were never ordered for use

in the album or as an enlargement (meaning still in RAW format,

untouched), is there a batch process that I can run in PSCS2 that

will convert the remaining RAWs & TIFFs into JPGs so I don't have to

open up every unordered image individually to manually convert them

myself?

 

Also, should I run a batch process that changes the dpi of all

images to 300dpi?

[fotografz]

Adobe Raw Converter in PSCS2 lets you set the file size, PPI, and file format when Saving. Just

select all the images in batches your computer RAM can handle, set the size and file format

and hit save to send to a desktop file. Look at the Tutorial that came with your PSCS2 to see

how to set all of these. They are all right on the browser page when you open a file full of

images in ARC.

[jenseay]

To convert the whole folder, go to File > Scripts > Image Processor. Very easy to do!

 

I actually convert the whole folder to JPG. Then, I edit the ones that I need to, opening the RAW file and making my changes, then saving over the JPGs I already converted (if that makes any sense). That way, I can easily upload my 'favorites' to the web in JPG format.

 

Jen

[rdkirk]

Why are you calling them "negatives?"

[jon jacobson]

<i>Why are you calling them "negatives?"</i>

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Because it's perfectly acceptable to carry over traditional terminology into new technologies.

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Today's phones do not have bells, but they still "ring."

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Many (if not most) terms used in Photoshop are film darkroom terms. Even the DNG extension is "Digital Negative."

[James G. Dainis]

Back in the old days of film, I used to call a positive image on film a "slide". I don't understand this calling a positive image a "negative" either. This somewhat implies that all people think that film cameras only use negative film.