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I edited around 300 photo's in Bridge and saved each one. I then highlighted around 50 and put them in a folder. When I went back to repeat highlighting and moving the rest into the same folder, I couldn't find them, and still cant! Any suggestions please? I'm not a high tech wizard so please keep it simple

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Correct answer gary_sc

Hi Christine,

Just a couple of questions: when you say you Saved the images, what application were you working ON the images with? Photoshop? Adobe Camera Raw? Photoshop Elements? (The reason I'm asking this is that I'll be better able to understand your workflow.)

When you said that you moved about 50 of them and moved them into a folder, did you move them from within Bridge to anther folder within Bridge OR from Bridge to the Finder/Explorer OR did you do all of the moving within the Finder/Explorer?

Lastly, can you remember any of the image's names? If you can, have you tried doing a search on that name. Possibly all of the images will be together with that image.

Hopefully we can find your images!

christineo56859174Author

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By the way, I still have the original Raw photo's in Photos, so should I start from scratch and edit them under your guidance?

gary_sc

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Hi Christine,

First I must congratulate you! For a beginner to have taken raw photos is fantastic. I have a few friends who've been taking photos for years and still avoid them as raw seems too intimidating. Raw images are different and do use a different workflow but they are not only easy, they are better and here's why: Remember I mentioned above that every time you save a JPEG you add on to the degradation? That doesn't happen to TIF or PSD files because they are not a lossy format. It also doesn't happen to raw images because you cannot CHANGE a pixel in a raw image, you can only change how the image is interpreted. That means that at any time you can easily revert back to the original image before any change has been done. There are other big big advantages with raw images that I'll get into in my upcoming blog.

To answer your question about work flow will take some time. As it might also help others I will write another blog (probably multiple sections) that covers this issue. I wish I could write a few paragraphs that explained everything BUT, as Mark Twain said when responding to a letter. "I'm sorry, I do not have time to write a short letter."

I will say that if you start from your raw files, you do NOT need to keep the original image and your "fixed" image because they are the same thing (as I mentioned above).

gary_sc

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Hi Christine,

Just a couple of questions: when you say you Saved the images, what application were you working ON the images with? Photoshop? Adobe Camera Raw? Photoshop Elements? (The reason I'm asking this is that I'll be better able to understand your workflow.)

When you said that you moved about 50 of them and moved them into a folder, did you move them from within Bridge to anther folder within Bridge OR from Bridge to the Finder/Explorer OR did you do all of the moving within the Finder/Explorer?

Lastly, can you remember any of the image's names? If you can, have you tried doing a search on that name. Possibly all of the images will be together with that image.

Hopefully we can find your images!

Y

Yajayra22664546jnr3

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Im in the same boat with not being able to find images, my boyfriend was editing images for silk screen printing shirts on PhotoShop on my laptop. He carelessly left PS opened and just closed my laptop and went to sleep. I go to use my laptop but i couldnt close the PS app because of unsaved files. So i proceeded to save a copy to my laptop just in case he wasnt trying to keep it that way, so i went to save a copy to my computer. I made sure to save each tab of images he had opened. But today when he went on to my laptop to try and finish his edits he couldnt find any of the saved copies anywhere on my laptop. I have spent the last 6 1/2 hours going through each and every last folder on my hard drive my system my onedrive even my external hard drive including the recycle bin and found absolutely nothing. can you please help me, i sadly thought/assumed that by given the option to save a copy to the photoshop folder in my laptop would ACTUALLY DO JUST THAT, but i was blindly fooled.

gary_sc

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Hi Yajayra,

Let's see if we can find them a different way:

Try going into PS, then, from the File menu, go to "Open Recent" and notice the images on the top. Now you can do a search for those images. If you find one, you'll probably find them all.

An extra tip IF you are using a Mac. First, PS should not be in Application Frame. (To get out of Application Frame go to the Windows menu and third from the bottom is Application Frame. (If that is checked, select it to get out of Application Frame.)

Now, open any of the Recently Opened files. Once the file is open, press the Command key and mouse-down on the name of the file. A dropdown menu will appear showing the path that that file is in. Here is what it would look like (but obviously this is on my computer, your folders would be different)

If I were to drag my mouse down to "Chuck," it would open the Chuck folder and I could see all of the content in Chuck at that point.

I do not know if there's anything like this on the PC though.

Good luck!

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