Originally Posted by
Rex176
Hi folks,
Relatively new to the LF thing. Just finished my first 50 sheet box of Fomapan 100 using an Intrepid 4x5 Mark IV.
I have a question about workflow, specifically regarding handling of cleaned-up negatives.
I'm using Capture One for post-processing. (This is slightly relevant to this discussion.)
After I've scanned a negative as a TIFF, I usually have to spend a lot of time cleaning up the image: dust, fuzz, etc. (I really have to be more diligent about keeping film holders and scanner clean.)
Once the negative is cleaned up, I'll start working on it. A couple of times, however, I've shot myself in the foot by hitting "undo" too many times or hitting "reset image" and I am back at my original image with all the spots. Depending on exactly what I've done, in Capture One there is no way to get back to the cleaned-up image.
So, as a precaution, once I've cleaned up an image, I export it as a TIFF file, so that I've always got a backup of my cleaned-up images, and I can reimport if necessary.
That got me thinking: Maybe as a matter of course I should reimport the cleaned-up TIFF into Capture One and then use that as my starting point for further post-processing. I can see a few advantages to doing this. If I decide to "start again" with my edits, I can reset the image and I've still got all the clean-up work done. Also, the image doesn't have the healing layers from the clean-up process.
Obviously, I'd be using more disk space, but I don't care about that.
Does this make sense?
Am I possibly losing something in the image by exporting and reimporting it?
Thanks for any thoughts.
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