Quote Originally Posted by davideglasgow
Obviously, they need to be converted to .jpg to do anything useful with them, but even then it's about 9 MB when using DPP.

If you are converting a 10 Mb RAW file to jpeg, it shouldn't be 9 Mb. If it is, then you are not compressing enough. I am not super-familiar with DPP, but in PS, you should be fine saving jpegs at 10-11 quality. The 12 (max), will probably be 9 Mb, but 10 should be maybe 4, I think.


I have been contemplating developing a streamlined workflow. This is what I want to do:



  • delete obvious poor shots
  • adjust exposure, contrast and WB if necessary
  • anything special, like HDRI or remove unwanted objects/artifacts
  • rotate/crop
  • Run script/action to save a quality 10 jpeg as well as one or two web versions (1280 and 800 px constrained)
  • Folder structure would have all the jpegs in the top folder with a subfolder for each RAW, Web1 and Web2
  • My pictures get automatically archived regularly

Now I just need to set up the scripts to do the resizing.