Workshop Index   STORAGE
  1. Camera settings
  5. Jpeg work flow
  6. RAW flow
  7. File details
  8. Storage
  9. Computer set up and basic work flow
  10. Image selection
  11. Transferring images between folders
  12. RAW processing
  13. Sharpening
  14. Shadow/highlight tool
  15. Correcting under-exposed images
  16. Overexposed images
  17. Reducing digital noise
  18. Correcting sloping horizons
  19. Mono conversions
  20. Layers
  21. False snow
  22. Producing a pencil sketch
  23. Using a layer to burn and dodge
  24. Curves
  25. Altering contrast using curves
  26. Altering part of the curve
  27. Pysadelic curves
  28. Curves and monochrome
  29. IR conversions
  30. HDR (High Dynamic Range) processing
  31. Highlight & Shadow in Photomatix
  32. Book list
  33. Return to home page
  

 

It's not a good idea to store large numbers of images randomly ; or even in dedicated folders; on your hard drive. They take up a lot of space, which can affect the speed of your machine. In the worst instance the drive could fail and you'd loose all your images. At least by using one of the work flows above if you did suffer a drive failure you would have the original data to fall back on.

When I have the images in what is to be their usable condition, but unsharpened, I save these to yet another disk. I also backup all the stages onto an external hard drive as well.

This may seem to use quite a few disks but storage media is cheap and it's better to be safe than sorry.

In fact as I have an obligation to my clients I make two copies of each of the disks, one stored in the workroom and the other in my darkroom, which is detached from the house. This is probably overkill for the average hobbyist but for the few pence involved well worth doing.