Do you keep .psd files?

[Adey Baker]

Originally Posted by daedal

I think you misunderstand my drift, or it has already drifted elsewhere.

I was probably drifting off, musing on Rob's comments.

Generally, I view all my out-of-camera shots (jpeg or raw) straight off the memory card and keep only those that I want. From these, any that I work on are kept as either tiffs or psds (don't use layers often, so either format is ok) which are, hopefully, 'final' images, as good as I can get them at that point.

Any that I print or put into galleries here, etc., will be from these final images, re-sized as necessary.

I keep my shots in seperate folders, depending on subject, and when I've selected those I want to print, etc. and also got enough files in the folder to fill a writable disc I'll copy them onto that disc and delete them from the PC

[pete-c]

I delete most of the crap on site then run them through the computer and delete any other which are better viewed at screen size. I then transfer the remainder to a CD. Only the best if i am lucky do I open in Photoshop CS and after working save as PSD to my hard drive.

Pete-c

Thank you all for sharing your thoughts.

I suppose we all have to set our own threshold for total junk, thereafter it seems to hinge on whether we print or not and maybe if we hope to become more skillful with PS or not.

BTW saving layered PS stuff as .tif does not destroy the layering, but still takes the same space as .psd (at least with LZW compression it does, xpect Zip and RLE similar)