What do you do with your RAW photos?

[Owin]

I shoot in RAW, which are archived to an external HDD, until there is enough to fill a DVD, which is then burnt to DVD. You never know when you need the original RAW files, or want to re-process them.

I used Adobe Bridge to decide on the ones I want to use, which are then converted to DNGs, whilst being imported into Lightroom and stored on an external HDD.

If I need to make changes in Photoshop, then the DNGs are edited and then re-saved, as PSDs keeping the layers intact, back on to the external HDD. Once a DVD's worth of images (DNG and PSD) are available I archive them to a DVD.

Each week I try and archive the HDD to another external HDD, just in case.

If I need JPGs to upload or share with friends, etc., I have Lightroom Export Presets set-up to export to the format I require. I then delete the JPGs as I can easily re-create with the export presets.

[neilwood]

I would never delete the RAW file as sometime in the future you may want to do something different to the image (B+W conversion etc) and if you only have the jpeg do use, you have lost a lot of the information that made the original image.

Also if you alter a jpeg and then save it, you reduce the quality again. So you effectively have reduced the quality from 10 to say 7 or 8(quite a chunk of lost info and a good chance of noticing artifacts). Do this with RAW and the latest conversion would be 10 (ie minimum lost info and virtually no artifacts)