EOS 5DS R Reducing size of RAW and JPEG images

[hvulpus]

Hi,

I'm off in France photographing Romanesque churches with a 5DSR which renders wonderful detail.  

I find that reworked RAW images, which seem to save as PSDs, can be huge, up to 130MB.  The RAWS are all in the 60MB range to start and the JPEGs in the 20MB range.

How does one reduce such large images to a manageable size, say, to send via email or use in Powerpoint?

Howard

[hvulpus]

Dear Trevor,  I just saw your response, for which many thanks.  I, too, use Photoshop.  But what do you do in PS to make such a reduction?

P.S., Do you mean MB and not GB in the above?

Thanks again,

Howard

[hvulpus]

Dear Marc,

This is incredibly helpful.  I used to have saved procedures in PS for reducing batches of large JPEGS.  It was incredibly complicated setting of the batch conversions, and every time I changed computers, which is pretty often and I have a bunch of the, I'd have to get help from work IT.  This is the first time, however, I've worked with RAW and love what I am able to do with it.  Just couldn't figure out the size reduction issue, and thank you much.

Howard

[hvulpus]

Thanks so much.  I think I will not go to another program unless I cannot get the PS to work satisfactorily.  Will IrfanView handle RAW files?

Howard

[hvulpus]

Dear Ron,  Thanks so much.  You are right about the sometimes lack of correlation between JPEG settings and actual appearance.  I had always thought this could be a function of computer screen resolution.

Howard

[stevet1]

Howard,

Yes. Irfanview will handle RAW files. Just go to its download page and download the Plugins.

I haven't used it to edit RAW files yet. I use DPP4 for that.

Steve Thomas