 Sharon L. Weeks |
More on Raw Have appreciated the dialog on the issues of RAW & JPEG. My Minolta Maxxum 5D has arrived - and I guess part of the reason I am stumped is I was unaware of the need for a converter for RAW. I use Elements and that supports RAW - My camera came with Dimage Master but I don't think after editing in that it can be kept in RAW and opened by Elements (where I would prefer to do all of my editing). I may be missing steps here and would appreciate your input. If I take a photo with the highest Jpeg resolution that my camera has and upload it to Elements and save it in TIF or PSD, haven't I avoided the losses associated with saving JPEGs?
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Raws have to be converted to tiffs, then you work on them with photoshop.
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Sharon L. Weeks |
Thanks, Greg. So unless I want to do all of the editing in a converter, I might just as well use the highest resolution JPEG I can, upload and save in TIFF, right, or PSD? Guess I should explore some other converters, too. Thanks again.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
No, you shoot as jpeg, you're shooting a compressed image file. You shoot raw, you're shooting with all the information that the camera can convert the image to. High jpegs are good but if you want or need all the info for tonal grades, editing for later, large size prints, raw is the better option. Saving your jpeg as a tiff keeps the jpeg info from being further compressed, or lossed from editing and resaving. Raw converters can change exposure and color balance, color tones, but nothing like photoshop. Converters work on the raw file in limited ways, and you can save raw files. But viewing thumbnails, changes to them can only be done with the converter.
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Sharon L. Weeks |
My other camera shot JPEG & TIFF and I always used the TIFF, but anyway, if I shoot in Raw now, upload to a converter, and save as a TIFF or PSD file, I should be in fairly good shape? And once again, thanks for your time.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
If you don't mind the large file size.
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