Finished my project. Now what?

[alan_markowitz1]

After working on a project and having loads of TIFF files, I'm finally done.

Obviously, I don't want to keep these huge TIFFs. On the other hand, if I turn

them into JPEGs, I'll loose quality. What if I need to use one of these

photographs in the future? It would be ashame not to preserve the quality of

the TIFF.

Any suggestions (apart from buying more storage...)

Thanks.

[Charles_Webster]

Buy more storage, it's cheaper than gambling with your files.

 

<Chas>

[ronald_moravec1]

There is no choice but to keep three, original, photoshop, and final JPEG.

 

Buy an external hard drive, Micro center sells 500 GB Buffalo for $110. Turn it on, move or

duplicate the files to it. Burn a cd or DVD. Then erase the camera card.

[ilkka]

I don't think you must keep all three. And obviously, if you have big TIFFs, these are not camera originals on a card. If you have finished TIFFs I would keep them on at least one hard drive and on DVD as well. It may be good to make a set of small jpegs for occasional use so that you don't always need to go back to the big tiffs if you just need to send a small image to someone for publicity etc.

[tonybynum]

You might be buggard for this project, but what's a $150 bucks for more storage, it's nothing so just buy some or burn them to a pile of DVD's we all do it all the time. . .

 

Here's the real solution to your issue, assuming you get another project like the one you just had,

 

buy lightroom and use it.

 

save raw files as dng and export tiffs. dump the tiffs when your done and you have the dng's on file; if ever you need them again just export them as tiffs . . .

[ellis_vener_photography]

"Obviously, I don't want to keep these huge TIFFs. "

 

Why not? If you really think you'll never need those photos again why not just erase all of them?

[alan_markowitz1]

I guess more storage it is... What about when saving the TIFF files in PS, compress them as LZW or ZIP?