How many discs?

[LoriKelso]

I've just started trying to burn photos I took of a friends wedding, and realized I can only get about 10 photos on a disc. I'm a total noob at saving photos for someone else and wanted the photos to be saved at full quality. How do you save lots of high res photos to a disc without using lots of them? Can I zip the files? :o I hate to ask such a stupid question, but realized the files are like 9900 mbs when I tried to burn them.

[picturecrazy]

holy moly about 10 photos per disc???
You must not be saving in JPEG format. Save it in JPEG and you'll likely get ALL the photos on one disc!

[SBCmetroguy]

This is what I was thinking... 10 photos per disc?! Surely not.

[LoriKelso]

Duh, thanks... I was saving in Tiff...

[SBCmetroguy]

Duh, thanks... I was saving in Tiff...

Oh wow, no wonder! JPEG all the way. :)

[vpnd]

check to see if you have a dvd burner, then you can burn about 5xs more than a cdr for about 2xs the price or less

[ajayclicks]

check to see if you have a dvd burner, then you can burn about 5xs more than a cdr for about 2xs the price or less

Agree. Also a 16 bitt tiff file is twice the size of a 8 bitt. And since labs usually take 8 bitts for printing (atleast in my part of the world), no point in handing out 16 bitt

Cheers

[martinsjc]

wow.. we do many high priced high quality weddings and we fit all images in a dvd... (over a thousand high quality jpg files) and the files print beautifully....

[LotsToLearn]

What kind of 'disc' are you using? Even on a CD at 650MB capacity that's an average of 65MB per picture to only record 10! Something is definitely wrong with what you're attempting.

[Tish]

Switch to JPEG, as others have said. If that's not enough to get it down to two discs or less, consider using a DVD. :)

[SkipD]

Do NOT use .jpg for the files that you edit, of course. Just copy the final image that goes to print a high-quality .jpg file.

[LoriKelso]

Do NOT use .jpg for the files that you edit, of course. Just copy the final image that goes to print a high-quality .jpg file.

That was exactly where I was screwing up. :o I saved the files from RAW to tif so that if I decided to go back and further edit, they wouldn't lose quality, and I just never saved them as .jpg. No wonder my 90 gig computer is running low on virtual memory, eh? LOL!

I actually do have a dvd burner, but bought media cd's to record on, as I've never had a problem saving lots of files to them before. Once I actually added up the file size on 300+ photo's, it was over 10 gigs. I just had no real clue how large the file size actually ends up when you save as .tif as opposed to .jpg. Plus, it seems like I actually saved quite a few with the layers unflattened, so that I could adjust if needed. That's a real eye opener! I was planning on buying an external harddrive and additional memory for my computer as my Christmas gift from my husband, but, hey, looks like if I wipe out a few files, I don't need to do that after all.

[20droger]

Even converting from raw to TIFF has some loss. No conversion is absolutely lossless. Always keep your original virgin raw files. This way you can always re-edit a shot. Once an image has been tweaked, however slightly, it may not be possible to go back to the original.

We save all our virgin raw (CR2) files to DVDs for achiving, but never give them to anyone. What we give to people are JPEGs on CDs. One CD can hold a heck of a lot of JPEGs.

This has the added benefit of assuring that if anyone disseminates one of our JPEG files, we can prove ownership in court by producing the original raw file. Fortunately, we've not had to do this, but it's nice to know we could.