On 10/25/2010 8:01 AM, Walter Gilbert wrote:
My routine (admittedly redundant) has been to pull the HD card and cut &
paste the folder into my "Photography" directory, load them into Picasa
and save the original files (typically JPEG) as the "Picasa Originals",
then go about cropping for composition. I do my best to avoid cropping
any image down to anything less than 2400 pixels long-side from the
original 4288x2848. Once I've done my cropping, I resize them down to
two resolutions -- 2400 pixels long-side for prints and 1600 pixels
long-side for uploading and sharing (if I intend to do that with any of
the images).
Am I screwing up by doing this instead of doing most of my cropping
in-camera, or is it six of one, half-a-dozen of the other?
Walt, I don't think that resizing down (decreasing actual pixel
dimensions) is a good idea. I use LightRoom so that whatever I do to my
RAW files is non-destructive and I get to keep the originals.
Also, unless I decide to print I don't keep printable size JPGs. In
fact, I don't keep any size JPGs unless this is family album file.
Everything else sits in their folders for a while and then gets deleted.
In LR I have a set of export preset - with frame, with title, for print
(several, depending on the print size), etc. So, when necessary I simply
export what is required.
As for "cropping in-camera" - you will have to explain to me what do you
mean exactly.
Thanks.
Boris
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