saving pics

[revid]

I've been using photoshop and lightroom to save and edit raw pics for a while now and wondering what do most people save their pics as,ie;jpeg,raw,psd,tiff? I have alot of pics on my puter as jpegs but know that each time I save Iam losing quality, and raw files are so big! So is there another way to save pics and or is there a better way to save raw files so their not as big and won't lose their quality?

[beatnik69]

You could save them to an external hard drive. You can get 1TB ones for not an awful lot these days. I keep my raw files but save the worked on final image as a large jpeg for printing.

[donoreo]

I use LR all the time, so I save them as the original RAW files. I keep the current year on my internal drive and copy (within LR) the previous year out to an external drive.

I NEVER keep jpgs, etc, as I can export one whenever I want. Even with I do have to use PS to edit something, I do it as a TIFF, then bring it back to LR as such.