Hello. I’m a new user of PhotoLab and wondering how to export my selected RAW files.
In the input to PL I have my ~30MB .CR3 files. If I export them into DNG, I get ~90MB files, which does not seem reasonable. Ideally, I would like to export my .CR3 (or .CR3_original?) and the .DOP files. I could just copy them from the input directory, but it’s not clear how to choose these that were selected in PL.
What is the “right” way to proceed? Maybe I’m missing something. Thanks!
You can’t export to any native RAW format, like .CR3. If you must export to .CR3 then you need to use Canon’s own software, Digital Photo Professional.
However, that you asked the question implies that you are not going share your edited files with anyone. In which case there is no need to export your edited file from PL. PL writes all your edits to the .dop sidecar file. The means when you reopen a previously edited RAW in PL those edits are read from the .dop and reapplied to (untouched) RAW file.
If though you do want to share your edited images with others then you should export as either a TIFF or a JPEG.
hi stuck. Thanks for your reply.
I do share the resulting JPEGs. I don’t share the RAWs, but I archive them.
As I wrote, I’m ready to take the original .CR3 and .DOPs (and I prefer this approach rather than to save modified files), but I want to archive only the selected ones, which represents ~10% of the global volume. I’m wondering how choose the selected shots (.CR3) for archiving. The first sorting may be done by the presence of corresponding .DOP files, but they are not all to be saved: frequently I work on several resembling shots before choosing the best one, so several .DOPs are created during the process, but only one is to be archived.
Thanks.
Welcome @AHTOH
The easiest way is to open PhotoLab in a root folder, such as /Photos/To_develop/…
then move the selection (raw + dop) of the best ones to /Photos/Classified/…
Erase /Photos/To_develop/…
Pascal
Yes, right, but how to match files corresponding to my selection done inside the PL?
When working in PL, I choose the shots I like, I mark them as “picked” or with a star. That’s my selection. How to choose the .CR3 files that matches it? The problem is that the notion of “selection” exists only inside PL. When I go to OS to copy files, I see only the .CR3 and .DOP files and I have no idea which ones were selected inside the PL.
In the PhotoLibrary, left-hand side, you can create a new folder (which will create a folder at OS-level).
Then, in PhotoLab, make your selection. Drag that selection to the newly-created folder in the PhotoLibrary folder browser pane.
PhotoLab will move (or does it copy? I can’t remember, and it might be different depending on Windows vs. Mac) the actual Raw files + associated DOP sidecars to that new directory.
Thanks Zeb, that’s what I was looking for!
Meanwhile I discovered that when exporting .DNG, it contains only cropped/processed shot, that was a big surprise for me… So I finished by writing a script, which goes to take the list of exported JPEGs, then copies the corresponding .CR3 and .DOP from the source directory. But your solution is much more practical. Thanks!