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Post by melodyesch on Jul 29, 2014 21:17:06 GMT
Ok, I have a Nikon DSLR and normally take pictures in fine format so that I can really zoom in and crop the daylights out of them. But that makes every single picture be 4MB or so. So on my last outing I took 200 or so pictures. How do you store them long term? Do you take the ones you might blow up and compress the other ones down? What do you use to do that?
Also, my SIL wants a copy of the pictures just to view on her computer. Should I export them to a smaller size to give them to her?
Any help about sizes, storage and sharing would be very welcome!
Thanks!
Melody
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2014 22:55:45 GMT
I don't compress but I do a heavy purge of what I shoot; get rid of blurry and near duplicates. I may take 200 but cull it down to the best 20-30. I have a couple of large external hard drives I save to. I save to both in case one fails. I don't compress files because they can't be uncompressed latter. So I either keep them as is or delete it completely.
For computer viewing I **duplicate** the original files and make them smaller. MUCH smaller. 600 pixels on the long side and a dpi of 150 will make good viewing on most monitors. Once they have been uploaded to where ever I plan to share (like to facebook) I delete the duplicate file from my computer (keep the original!!)
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Post by anniefb on Jul 29, 2014 23:01:23 GMT
I get photos from my brother (for niece's PL album) that are huge - maybe 12MB, in RAW format. I leave originals on Dropbox and edit before printing. I don't usually compress or resize but like voltagain get rid of duplicates, fuzzy ones etc. For sharing I use PSE save for web. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2014 22:44:21 GMT
I import all my pictures into Lightroom and cull out all the bad stuff. I edit the ones I really like, export them to a different folder. I actually export them twice - one big for printing and then again smaller for uploading to FB or my blog. I then move the originals to a external drive. I also copy the edited folders to an external drive but I do leave them on my laptop for a few month just in case I need them or someone else wants a copy.
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Post by melodyesch on Aug 1, 2014 16:06:20 GMT
Thanks for the responses. Needmysanity, that sounds like the best plan for me.
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