I ALMOST HAD A HEART ATTACK (becuase i'm an idiot)

[Sw1tchFX]

Because of my stupidity, I hope nobody who reads this thread makes the same mistake that I just did.

WHEN YOU FINISH WORKING ON YOUR IMAGES, SAVE THEM. NOT THE SMALL WEB SIZE ONES, BUT THE FULL RES VERSIONS as well.

I just spent the last 3 hours trying to match and completely re process one of my HDR's because I failed to save a copy of the full resolution version. I had to re-tonemap, color correct, channel mix, dodge, burn, spot, and all other processing to try and match this new, full size version, to the resized old one.

Needless to say, i got close, but not exact.

PEOPLE, SAVE YOUR WORK so you're not like me and have to redo it.

 

[abraxas]

You did this just once?

 

[Sw1tchFX]

lol, you say that like it happens all the time.

 

[abraxas]

Again this morning, and a very time-consuming composite at that. The upside is that it was a crappy piece of work.

Most of my shots I'll process maybe three times anyhow. Admittedly though it is irritating to get tired and blow a session- And, it only happens when I'm tired.

 

[Garbz]

What? You got of easy. I accidentally deleted full sized and the RAWs in one go because they were hiding in a folder under a window on my desktop and I didn't realise they were selected.

Be thankful all you lost was a few hours and the "exact" match. It could have been worse

 

[leopardforest]

I do my best to copy all of my pictures to two separate hard drives when I import them. How about you guys?

 

[Sw1tchFX]

I do that too, but I don't think i saved it after I edited it in the first place.

 

[Garbz]

I really should do something as a backup since my photos are not stored anywhere safe while I'm working on them. The finals go to a RAID1 array.

 

[DonSchap]

My images are:

1. off the media card, every week ... or after every serious shoot activity.
2. They go to HD for work
3. a copy to of the original to CD/DVD ... for original archival.
4. Any photoshop work goes to sub-folder called "adjustments" and work archival
5. Weekly compressed backup to DVD

Works for me. Got two years worth of work that way ... no losses. Backup, backup ... and a copy