RAW-image-file capture 197Because Adobe Bridge lets you view thumbnails for RAW fi les, Joe prefers to sort them into folders before
doing any kind of processing. Processing fi rst seems backward, because you end up wasting time and hard-
drive space by processing images that may not be worth your time. © 2006 Joe Farace.
Next, resize the preview palette to make it smaller, allowing you
to see all the items in the folder view, and then drag them one
fi le at a time or click-drag groups of image fi les into the folder
by content. Once inside each individual folder, sort the images
by their ratings so the best ones appear fi rst in a Bridge view of
that folder. At this point, the truly anal may want to make another
CD, but Joe confesses that he waits until actually processing
some of the fi les to do that.
While the fi les are temporarily stored on the hard disk, pick ones
to crop, color-correct, or manipulate—those that, in general, will
produce a better-looking, salable photograph. These retouched
image fi les can be kept in the same folder as the originals and
saved in Photoshop’s PSD format, with all the manipulation