Sep 20, 2004, 22:58
I keep everything, and delete on an exception basis. I actually tend to delete the jpegs at the end of the workflow because they are trivial to regenerate from a TIFF.
As Mitch says, storage is cheap - I "hope" that my time is worth more than that. The working files (TIFFs, PSDs, Jpegs) can be dumped to CD as my hard drives fill up - the time that it takes me to get it back from the CD is way less than my recreation time. Plus - a lot of times I cannot recreate what I did in Photoshop the first time - the creative proces swith me is very trial and error - with the UNDO command being my most frequently used.
As for "getting it right the first time" - that is not how it always works with me - your mileage may vary.
As Mitch says, storage is cheap - I "hope" that my time is worth more than that. The working files (TIFFs, PSDs, Jpegs) can be dumped to CD as my hard drives fill up - the time that it takes me to get it back from the CD is way less than my recreation time. Plus - a lot of times I cannot recreate what I did in Photoshop the first time - the creative proces swith me is very trial and error - with the UNDO command being my most frequently used.
As for "getting it right the first time" - that is not how it always works with me - your mileage may vary.