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I have been doing a lot of residential real estate photography lately and working with hdr images that are composed of several (sometimes up to 9 exposures). The resulting tiff files are huge considering my camera is 22mp. The resulting tiff after combined in enfuse is 5616 × 3744 and about 160mb. My computer doesnt have a real hard time with these images but could be faster(obviously) if they were smaller. I know its better to work on the largest image possible but this is getting a little absurd. What is a good size to reduce my image to ? Should I reduce it to the largest format i will be giving the client, and then start work on it? Also what would be the prefered way to reduce the image size since i dont want to sharpen it at all(image processor?)?

If your usual format is predictable, like A4 or Letter size, then I would scale to about 1 to 2 times that size at 300 dpi and keep it RGB. If you want a 'good' pic but much smaller, then save as jpg at the second highest quality setting. If you are going to do this then you should archive your originals on DVD or whatever you have and work using the reduced ones with the big archive versions kept for safety.
If you are going to do this, you can do perfectly good real estate quality print with a 25 Meg psd to A4+ or a jpg of the same thing can be a couple of meg, and if handled intelligently, can be indistinguishable from the big file in offset print. Note, I am not talking boutique printing here, but I know how it can be if you have 200 standard catalogue product shots to manipulate on modest equipment. Your workflow needs to be good though and your adjustments and conversions need to be done right.

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