by
Rusty » Tue May 26, 2009 8:59 pm
Tina, I believe from previous comments that you don't use the organizer. I don't either; I think you and I are doing the same thing: folders within
My Documents/My Pictures.You will soon stumble into a routine that "works for you". For what it's worth, here is what I have evolved into doing.
First off,
RAW files are big, real big. I'm a memory miser and even when moving stuff to my EHD, I'm rather ruthless about deleting files. In addition to the obviously no good stuff, I will delete the RAW files if I think it unlikely that I will ever want to re-edit that image (a lot of my church work falls into that classification).
After I bring files from ACR into PSE Edit (just as described by Chuck) I find many that simply aren't keepers. It either doesn't look like what I thought when shooting or it is one or two of three or four versions of the same thing that doesn't make the cut. (I shot 128 frames at a Saturday church function and gave 64 edited images to the
website lady today). For the files I intend to delete, I bounce the view up to 100% or so and, with the crop at
no restrictions, save a sliver. When I have finished my processing, it is real easy to identify what should be trashed:
- To Delete.jpg (72.71 KiB) Viewed 2285 times
The files show up in the folder where I put them in groups of three -
all with the same filename, just different extensions as described by Chuck. It is real easy and real fast to just zip thru the folder looking for those tall skinny jpeg images -
I delete that plus the NEF and XMP file right next to it.
Now, you can leave your folder just like this if you want to. You don't need to "see" the RAW file (NEF extension) because it is right alongside the Jpeg file which you can see. I'm kinda quirky, I go one more step and create a sub-folder named
negatives. Now, after I have deleted all the junk (tall skinny images) I resort the window by changing the
View to
File Type and I create a sub-folder named "negatives". Now I drag the NEF and XMP files into that sub-folder.
- Organize.jpg (80.82 KiB) Viewed 2285 times
This leaves just the visible Jpegs in the folder I am viewing.
For my church work I hang on to my negatives for five or six months, then I delete them. Having my files set up this way makes that easy for me.
This works for me only because of my quirks and how I usually do things; you will no doubt develop different methods.
Hope this is some help.
Rusty