summerseddy
Member
- Joined
- Jun 23, 2019
- Messages
- 34
- Lightroom Experience
- Advanced
- Lightroom Version
- Classic
- Lightroom Version Number
- 8.3.1
- Operating System
- Windows 10
Here's how my workflow might go;
1) Open DNG (Raw file) in LR, do some basic edits (Create Virtual Copy, just in case, for comparison or a way to get back 'quickly'), if it's enough then Export As Jpg.
2) If not then I Edit In > PS
3) In PS I make further changes, applying layers, filters and finally sometimes a bordering (like below);
Shortly after this process is where I need help. If I hit 'Save' then the changes are applied back in LR (cool...) as a Tiff file, and I can again make any last minute changes or simply Export the file as a Jpg. That's awesome, except I'm left with a 29mb DNG file (sometimes a virtual copy as well) and a 130mb Tiff file of essentially the same image. That's quite a lot of data to keep for one shot, but I kinda want to keep them all, the original RAW in case I want to revisit the file again and steer it in another direction, and also the Tiff because it will be different to the edited DNG (filters applied, bordering etc)... it's just... does it need to be so darn big?!
When using LR and 'Edit In' and making further edits in PS, when we click 'Save' is there anyway to tell PS to save it back to LR as something 'lighter' than the typical 100+mb Tiff files I'm left with? It just strikes me as being a bit overkill?
Here's another even more ridiculous example I did today, have a look at the image below;
This is a little bit different from the norm in a sense because I had to use two RAW DNG files to create it this in the first place because it is aperture stacked shot (f2.8 and f4 was used, in the processing part I used the f4 shot for the flower and kept the rest of the frame/background using the f2.8 shot);
1) So I had to first import 2x 39mb DNG files into LR. I made basic adjustments to both.
2) then when I had them semi matched for exposure etc I then I took them off to PS to Align the images as layers and do the masking (as detailed above).
3) once I was satisfied (for now) in PS from the masking job, I 'Saved' and saw my changes applied automatically back into LR. From here I then actually rendered the image, cropped it properly and did more retouching.
4) Finally satisfied with the look I then did one final 'Edit In' PS to generate my bordering and watermark (which I have set up as a macro)
5) Then I hit 'Save' in PS and saw the bordering applied version in LR and could then do an Export as Jpg.
So right now, sitting on my PC (not talking imaginary data here but actual data on the SSD) is;
- DNG 1 = 39mb
- DNG 2 = 39mb
- Tiff 1 (merge of DMG 1+2) = 517mb (lol!)
- Tiff 2 (proper render, crop with added bordering and wm = 849mb (woops!)
Total SDD space used up for one image = 1.41gb... (not including the exported Jpg).
Yeah so things are getting silly.
Perhaps this is the wrong place to ask, maybe its more of a PS thing than LR, but I thought perhaps I'd try here first. I can't change my workflow much, it's really about these ridiculous sized tiff files than PS gives when I visit that town, can I not use another format or some kind of tiff compression that really has little to no difference during the editing process (virtually unnoticeable).
Thanks,
Eddy
1) Open DNG (Raw file) in LR, do some basic edits (Create Virtual Copy, just in case, for comparison or a way to get back 'quickly'), if it's enough then Export As Jpg.
2) If not then I Edit In > PS
3) In PS I make further changes, applying layers, filters and finally sometimes a bordering (like below);
Shortly after this process is where I need help. If I hit 'Save' then the changes are applied back in LR (cool...) as a Tiff file, and I can again make any last minute changes or simply Export the file as a Jpg. That's awesome, except I'm left with a 29mb DNG file (sometimes a virtual copy as well) and a 130mb Tiff file of essentially the same image. That's quite a lot of data to keep for one shot, but I kinda want to keep them all, the original RAW in case I want to revisit the file again and steer it in another direction, and also the Tiff because it will be different to the edited DNG (filters applied, bordering etc)... it's just... does it need to be so darn big?!
When using LR and 'Edit In' and making further edits in PS, when we click 'Save' is there anyway to tell PS to save it back to LR as something 'lighter' than the typical 100+mb Tiff files I'm left with? It just strikes me as being a bit overkill?
Here's another even more ridiculous example I did today, have a look at the image below;
This is a little bit different from the norm in a sense because I had to use two RAW DNG files to create it this in the first place because it is aperture stacked shot (f2.8 and f4 was used, in the processing part I used the f4 shot for the flower and kept the rest of the frame/background using the f2.8 shot);
1) So I had to first import 2x 39mb DNG files into LR. I made basic adjustments to both.
2) then when I had them semi matched for exposure etc I then I took them off to PS to Align the images as layers and do the masking (as detailed above).
3) once I was satisfied (for now) in PS from the masking job, I 'Saved' and saw my changes applied automatically back into LR. From here I then actually rendered the image, cropped it properly and did more retouching.
4) Finally satisfied with the look I then did one final 'Edit In' PS to generate my bordering and watermark (which I have set up as a macro)
5) Then I hit 'Save' in PS and saw the bordering applied version in LR and could then do an Export as Jpg.
So right now, sitting on my PC (not talking imaginary data here but actual data on the SSD) is;
- DNG 1 = 39mb
- DNG 2 = 39mb
- Tiff 1 (merge of DMG 1+2) = 517mb (lol!)
- Tiff 2 (proper render, crop with added bordering and wm = 849mb (woops!)
Total SDD space used up for one image = 1.41gb... (not including the exported Jpg).
Yeah so things are getting silly.
Perhaps this is the wrong place to ask, maybe its more of a PS thing than LR, but I thought perhaps I'd try here first. I can't change my workflow much, it's really about these ridiculous sized tiff files than PS gives when I visit that town, can I not use another format or some kind of tiff compression that really has little to no difference during the editing process (virtually unnoticeable).
Thanks,
Eddy