We’ve worked through how to take lots and lots of beautiful photos. Now we need to take care of those files, right?
See this pretty image? Recently I was lucky enough to photograph her and her family. Yes, they were all that easy on the camera.
But what happens if you have an image like this and you are frequently using it, opening, saving, opening, changing, saving, maybe cropping a little for a certain size you need, saving, opening, saving… wash, rinse, repeat….
Not good, right? So how can you prevent the destruction of your images?
I recommend for images that you use often, create a PSD or tiff file (or both!) backups of this. And every so often – get rid of the jpg and make a fresh copy from your PSD. It’ll keep your little beauties beautiful.
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I have no idea how to do that, but I’ll ask my computer savvy son for help. Thanks.
Is this why you shoot in RAW? I had no idea that jpeg files would do that. Thanks for sharing. I have really enjoyed gleaning from your experience and wisdom in photography! (PS. I hope you have a post planned on safe photo storage… hint, hint)
fabulous tip!!
Just found your website from the Relevant site. Great pictures and super easy to follow tips. My husband (also a photographer) has been trying to teach me how to do this stuff for pictures on my blog. … I am learning slowly. Iti s amazing what can be done to pics now. thanks for all the help!
I too would like to know if that is the benefit of shooting in RAW? Or a quick tutorial on how to save it as a psd. Love your blog!
I had NO IDEA that that happened! I had seen it with some of my images, but figured that I had done something wrong.
You = genius.