Hi all,

The girlfriend and I bought ourselves a Canon EOS400D for Christmas, and I have finally got round to downloading some pictures to my pc.

All the pictures are RAW - and now I guess I need to process them?

But how?

What do I do to them?

I could read the manual in detail, but I'm sure you all will be able to put it in to layman's terms for me.

At present all I have is the software that came with the camera . . .

Please help!

TIA

 

RAW is the uncompressed data. The software that comes with the Camera should be able to view them, edit and export them to a normal jpeg photo. Or if you have Photoshop or I think Picasa (googles photo management software) will do RAW as well.

You can change what your camera saves to in the menu, if you don't want to lots of editing you may as well just set it to the highest JPEG setting, easier to manage and you can get a lot more to a memory card.

But as for getting to you pics, install what came with the camera and plug in the USB, should just work!

 

I have them on the pc - I'm just wondering more if I need to edit them at all or just re-save now as jpeg's?

If editing then what should I do?

 

You don't have to edit them at all if your happy with them. Things like adjusting the exposure is quite useful with a RAW photo. I'm sure there will be someone along that uses RAW more then me to explain what you can do with them a bit better

 

No disrespect intended, but this is simply not true... RAW images need to be edited unless the photographer is Ray Charles. There is no sharpening, color saturation, white balance, or anything else done that is normally done "in camera" when shooting Jpegs. It is this reason that photographers choose to shoot RAW, because it places the creative decisions in the hands of the photographer and not the camera. If the images were to be left "as is" they would most likely be flat and have no punch at all.

 

[QUOTE=F1-Fanatic,Feb 14 2007, 02:57 PM] No disrespect intended, but this is simply not true...

 

In the meantime then, would I be better shooting in jpeg - then go back to RAW later?

 

probably

 

I am flattered that you tagged my name on that great photo, but I believe it belongs to Ketchup

And yes, I recommend going back to JPEG until you get comfortable with the camera. Learn how to use the camera first, then you can worry about RAW processing to get the best out of your camera you just learned

 

how the heck did u do that? can you post a step-by-step guide.