Even if you save at JPEG high setting, you will loose stuff. If you save again, you loose more. I tend to save as TIFF for my permenant backup since it its uncompressed, but your right, the file will be larger.
Typically what I do is make a temp photo foler, and inside I may use sub-folders, like personal, business, the farm , whatever if I need to seperate the pictures. When the folder gets to about 600 meg, then I burn the folder, that contains the sub-folders, on to 2 CD’s. That way if something happens to one of the CD’s someday, I can copy the second. I would hate to loose the pictures. Then I clear the temp folder on the PC, and start the next. That way you don’t have gigs and gigs of pictures on your PC.
I use Thumbsplus6,by Cerious software. It is a file browser similar to the one in Photoshop and Elements, but the real reason I use it is to catalog these CD’s. It has a function where it can scan the CD, and keep a thumbnail catalog of the CD on the computer and it keeps it in the same sub-folder format. (That was important after I purchased ACDC program, it scanned the CD, but wouldn’t keet the folder structure which meant it just mixed together ALL the photos making the clean sub-folder structure worthless. They fixed it in the next version, but it took hours for it scan the CD. In other words Thumbsplus was MUCH better at doing the only thing I really wanted it to do.) Now when I need to find that SPECIAL photo again, there is a nice thumbnail gallery of my offline CD’s and makes it easy to find it.
Anyway, I usually will save an unfixed version of the picture in case some day I have differant idea of how to fix it or crop it, and maybe a finished version, if it was really good. Cd’s are cheap and keeps you from using up your hard drive.
Oops…… more info then you needed.
Sorry,
Ralph
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