Hamilton Buhl Hamilton DC2 Curriculum - Manual (Page 9)

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The Photoshop Roadmap
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Saving Digital Images
Back in the days of film cameras, we all knew that the negatives that
came with our prints should be preserved and stored if we ever wanted
to make more prints. When your pictures are digital, you don’t have a
negative, but you do have the original picture file. You and your students
should treat the original picture file as the negative and save your original
image files that you download from your camera in folders in an
organized way that best suits you and your students’ needs. If you are
using Mac OS X, iPhoto does it for you. If not, it might be best to make
folders with the dates that you have taken the pictures. You may also
choose to have folders with the names of the events or places you have
photographed. Whatever you decide be sure to save and backup, make
copies of, your picture files. Remember, your picture files are more
important than your prints because you can make many more prints from
one picture file.
The best way to preserve your digital images is to burn them on a CD. CDs
are inexpensive and may store up to 700 MBs of data. That means that