What's your workflow for saving your final photo edits?

While working in LR and PS, I usually always finish up in LR by exporting the image for web and then save my favorite shot on one external drive and then one copy is sent to my Raid.

Someone was telling me about saving final edits as a TIFF also, something to do with better archival.  Have you heard anything like that? 

I always have to ask: define "better"?

Short answer: no. The file is in  LR. Why save it again? My serious edits already involve a PSD as part of my workflow, so that's as close as I would get.

I export my images (using jfFolder) into Drive, where I can get go them anywhere else. Those are 2k on the long edge. That meets most of my needs. Images for clients are provided through my website.

My computers hard drive stopped being larger enough to hold my stuff long ago.  I have a Drobo set up in my home that I move all my photos onto afterwards.  That's pretty much it for my back up.  

Shooting RAW and always working in session, I will
— cull and PP the RAWs
— export a final web version to be edited in pixel editor if needed
— (for extensive editing work, the final version will be at 100% and
xx then saved with the RAWs, otherwise I never keep web versions!)

I never keep tiff, png or other formats.

Lacie drives

Tiff is nice when you need to have a large print made. I believe it preserves a larger dynamic range as well, but I would need to verify that. I provide these to clients when they specifically need them. 

That being said, my tiff files are 150mb and larger (40mp). If you’re just posting on the computer, jpg are more than ok. I usually set my quality to 90%, which makes the file even smaller, because again, most are just shared here and on other social media and unless you’re pixel peeping pretty hard, you can’t see the difference. 


So my settings are:
-jpg
-90-100% quality
-File number and date for file name

garyrhook wrote: I always have to ask: define "better"?

Short answer: no. The file is in  LR. Why save it again? My serious edits already involve a PSD as part of my workflow, so that's as close as I would get.

I export my images (using jfFolder) into Drive, where I can get go them anywhere else. Those are 2k on the long edge. That meets most of my needs. Images for clients are provided through my website.

Not my words, just quoting what I had read.   2k is that set by you?  What happens to the larger file incase you want to print larger?  

Dan Spade wrote: Not my words, just quoting what I had read.   2k is that set by you?  What happens to the larger file incase you want to print larger?  

You didn't ask about intent, you asked about workflow. Producing images for various purposes is the act of exporting. Everything up to that point is about asset management and developing. Don't conflate the two.

Once an image is "finished", I can do whatever with it: print it, organize it in a collection, export it using a variety of techniques. I have a plugin that can send the image to a gallery on ZenFolio (jfZenFolio), to a single folder on  a hard drive (Hard Drive Export), to a folder structure the mimics my catalog folder structure (jfFolder) which is in my Drive folder and is therefore replicated automatically, to Flickr, to Facebook, whatever. Each export service is set up to perform a certain function at the required resolution and quality.

Note: this was one of the most difficult things for me to figure out when I started using LR. It took months to wrap my head around using this, and I still don't take really good advantage of this feature.

So, to actually answer your question: my export service for my folders that are in Drive (and thus accessible from my phone/whatever) are configured for 2K by me, yes. If I need a fullsize image, I use a different export service to create that file. But the images in Drive are for me, and their size and quality are suitable for whatever I might need: showing to someone, posting to IG or FB, sending to someone, etc.

I know this probably doesn't help much, but I thought I put some additional words to it.