photoshop saving

Bountyphotographer

Hello, I was wondering about saving pictures after editing them in photoshop. Some will save them with the photoshop extension . It seems to be a good idea since one can always go back to it and see what has been done, but the file is huge 65 MB . I save my pictures in JPG 6 MB, because I have so many of them.
What do you think:dunno

Also what does the flatten image do when saving in photoshop?

BP

Richard

Bountyphotographer wrote:

Hello, I was wondering about saving pictures after editing them in photoshop. Some will save them with the photoshop extension . It seems to be a good idea since one can always go back to it and see what has been done, but the file is huge 65 MB . I save my pictures in JPG 6 MB, because I have so many of them.
What do you think

Also what does the flatten image do when saving in photoshop?

BP

It really depends on how often and how important it is to be able to quickly go back and make changes to a processed pic. As you see, PSD files consume a lot of storage space, so you will need a large external disk if you go that route.

If you only want to "see what has been done" you can use the "history log" instead. See Preferences->General->History Log and set it to detailed. This will save a very detailed description of each step you followed.

FWIW, I save the original RAW file and a very high quality JPEG of the finished file and use detailed logging to a text file. Works for me, but there is no correct answer here--needs and circumstances differ.

claudermilk

Why the cross-posting? See my answer in your other thread (mods: merge them?)

Richard

claudermilk wrote:

Why the cross-posting? See my answer in your other thread (mods: merge them?)

Hah! I thought I was going nuts there for a moment...I couldn't see the response I posted, then I responded again and there were two copies of my response. I didn't realize there were two threads.

Yeah, these should be merged.

Bountyphotographer

rsinmadrid wrote:

Hah! I thought I was going nuts there for a moment...I couldn't see the response I posted, then I responded again and there were two copies of my response. I didn't realize there were two threads.

Yeah, these should be merged.

sorry about the cross posting one is enough right?

I see what you mean. I think that If I were shooting for a living taking astonishing pictures of landscapes I would probably save it in PSD, but for the time being I save it as JPEG at the highest resolution (12).
BP