What I need to keep things straight for my simple mind is a workflow from picture taken to picture sold. From what needs to be down during which operations in what software packages to eliminate duplication of work and duplication of software. Does anyone have time to explain all this to me? I'm realy not stupid, it's just way too many functions and too many options to digest all at once.
I currently upload my digital images in Photoshop elements 3 and allow the camera to assign the name of the photo eg.(P020345). I don't add titles or descriptions. Should I? Each .jpg file is about 2mb or less, unless I crop. Which brings me to another question. When I crop an image I can set the crop size from the original 35"x26" to 2.5"x5" I think. Does it matter what crop size I choose? I've been cropping the larest size, which actually is stretching the cropped image, I think, because I don't want to crop it for 8x10 and then need it larger later on. I understand the rule about resolution lost when enlarging a picture.
To simplify, I just want to know what I need to be doing when uploading images from camera to photoshop and how. Then how to manage my images in an organized way. Then when and how to enlarge images for larger print sizes and what software to use for this. This area of resizing or uncompressing images has me baffled. All I know is that my camera takes a 2mb image and that if I change, crop or resize that image I loose quality. So how do I get a large print out of a 2 mg original image?
they have a serious of ebooks dedicated to these subjects - there has been an enormous amount written about this on the web so you could do a search in google on digital photography workflow etc
