Back when I was trained on PhaseOne's capture software (now known as C1 or Capture One), the workflow was to "develop" the raw images into 16-bit TIFF files. So the analogy for film users was that the RAW images are your "negatives" and your TIFFs are your "prints", ready for additional work. To this day, C1 still embodies this workflow. Part of the reason for this workflow was that the pro photographers would typically hand these files to the next person in the publishing process. Since they didn't have software that could read the RAW format, converting them to TIFF with the photographer's intent applied to it seems a logical step to me.
I've set my Photoshop settings to save individual .xmp files for each raw file. These get saved together with the exported Photoshop cache in my archive. I believe that when you do that, Photoshop knows how to handle this automatically. I have a desktop machine and a laptop. Before I saved separate .xmp and exported cache files, I'd have to recreate my settings and keywords, and Photoshop rebuilt the cache each time I copied a directory from one machine to the other. With the .xmp and exported cache files, it doesn't rebuild the cache and I don't lose my keywords. The question is whether some other software will know how to automatically deal with the XMPs.
If your primary concern with remembering the custom settings for your PEF is to be able to reopen and render the PEF with the same settings as before, I think it might make more sense to save a copy of the file as a 16-bit TIFF.
btw, You may want to save your scanned images as 16-bit TIFF rather than psd. It's more of a standard than psd, in case you need to open them in some other software in the future.
--jc
On Feb 7, 2005, at 5:13 PM, Derby Chang wrote:
My collection of PEFs is rapidly growing, and I need to get a process together to archive these properly. My system for scanned negs is to have each roll on a subfolder (labelled with the date of processing), and then I burn them onto a single session CD or DVD as 16bit PSDs. I'd like to do something similar with the digital files.
Naturally, the untouched PEFs will be archived. Now, Photoshop seems to remember custom settings I've appled to each individual PEF while they are still on my hard-disk. I gather these are stored in the cache, which can be exported for each subfolder from the file browser. That's cool, but in the future, if I need to reopen the PEF with the original settings I applied to them, how to I reload it?
I know I can export individual .xmp files that will store the settings, but these aren't necessarily tied to the PEF themselves; they can be applied to any other file.
I suppose I could just have the .xmp given the same name as the PEF, and then reload it manually. But is there a more automated way to do this?
Does anyone include a JPG version of the file with their archives?
D
(PS, added a few more pics on my homepage)
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