How do you clear out your rubbish photos before editing?

[daymouse]

I've just picked up my ipad pro, boughty Affinity to start editing my RAW's but I'm wondering the best place to go though and view the RAWs before starting to edit to get rid of all the rubbish. I was wondering what other people do as a workflow.

1. My initial thought is

2. Import All photos to the photo App

3. Go through and review the RAWs favoriting all the photos i want to edit

4. Open Affinity. Create a New Project

5. Import all the favourited photos from the Photos App into the Project

6. Delete all the RAWs from the Photos App

[Callum]

Hi Daymouse,

Welcome to the forums!

I'd say this might be your best way to do this  However I recommend not deleting the RAWS you want to edit just to be sure.

Thanks

C

[LionelD]

I try to avoid deleting my RAW files.  Firstly, RAW processors and your skill using them improves over time.  You learn things, and technology advances.  I have RAW’s that I have re-processed many times, often improving the final result.  I’m very pleased that I retained the RAW files.

Disk capacity is cheap these days, so I expect you’ll find that managing lots of photos is a much bigger challenge than acquiring capacity.

Regards

[Minus44]

Completely agree with @Callum along with an important point by @LionelD.

When you work with large volumes of images, the easy temptation is to toss out all the raw files once you've done processing them. However, the key to good image management is judicious culling prior to starting your processing — keepers vs tossers. Whatever you know you want to keep should then be archived via at least two methods — in the cloud so that you can access it later from any device, and on a local external drive of some sort. You can add other layers of backup dependent upon your risk. 

While I do not subscribe to the "disk capacity is cheap" approach (in the big picture there's usually much more hardware cost involved than simply the cost of storage), there's a lot to be said for investing in what you anticipate for your future needs for the next several years. Backing up and archiving your keepers will enable you to return to those keepers if and whenever you need.