 Troy E. Modlin |
JPEG vs. Raw? I am pretty new to photography and just got PS Elements 5. I'm begiining to shoot in RAW but am not real confident in my processing skills yet. If I shoot in RAW and let Elements do the "auto" thing to them, is that still better than JPEG with the auto fixes, or am I just wasting my time on a lot of extra steps for nothing? Thanks in advance for any input you may have.
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Kathleen Rinker |
Troy, I shoot everything in RAW. When you go to standard edit it brings up your picture next to slider for exposure, shadow, brightness, contrast and saturation. I usually uncheck all the boxes and use the sliders to develop the picture and then save it in .DND and then hit the open button at the bottom and go to the standard edit mode from there if you want to do more adjusting you can such as image size, etc. and then save it as jpec or psd or whatever. Hope this helps.
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Raws are better than jpeg anyway. You may not need raw for what you're doing. Using a converted raw image doesn't make something happen with auto adjustments such as the same image as a jpeg comes out looking green. Auto adjustments will produce desirable results depending on how the picture looks in color combination, tone combination. Sometimes it'll look good, sometimes not.
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Troy E. Modlin |
Thank you both for your advice. I'll be going on vacation in a couple of weeks, so I think I'll take one of each if it's something "special" and try some things with them.
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Richard Lynch |
RAW will provide some latitude that JPEG will not, and here's why: JPEG is an 8-bit file, and RAW files can be up to 16-bit. The difference is the ability to distinguish 16.7 million colors or over 35 BILLION. There really is no need to shoot both. If you have the option, choose RAW ... and even if you just choose the defaults you have at least 16 times (up to 32 times as much information). RAW files are larger, so have plenty of extra storage on hand. A portable card reader/external drive like the Wolvarine can help. I have one and I can shoot about 12,000 photos without having to download to the computer! I hope that helps.
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