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Okay, i am slowly but surely picking things up as a i read the forums.
Am I right in understanding that RAW is an unedited version of the photo you have taken? which you can process after?
I switched my camera to shoot RAW but then couldn't edit anything on the screen. or is it recommended to open it up in photoshop?

Also for a newbie would you recommend shooting in Jpeg or RAW?

Thank you



- We all have to start somewhere!
 
RAW is the unedited version, yes. Best way to edit would be through some sort of photo editing software.

I would shoot RAW, but it does depend on how good you are getting it right first time :p
 
Think of RAW as your digital negative and a JPEG as the processed end product.
 
Chonga said:
Think of RAW as your digital negative and a JPEG as the processed end product.
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nice way of putting it.


I think i'll stick to Jpeg until I get my SDHC card (at the moment I am using a 512MB :lol:)

And also by then i should be better at taking photos.

another question regarding. when editing using photoshop or similar, what sort of things do you edit on it?
levels? colour? sharpness? contrast?
or is there more to it.
 
My best advice is to take a couple of snaps, get them onto your computer and load them in photoshop and see what RAW can offer you
 
kingsizeriz said:
Okay, i am slowly but surely picking things up as a i read the forums.
Am I right in understanding that RAW is an unedited version of the photo you have taken? which you can process after?
I switched my camera to shoot RAW but then couldn't edit anything on the screen. or is it recommended to open it up in photoshop?

Also for a newbie would you recommend shooting in Jpeg or RAW?

Thank you



- We all have to start somewhere!
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Adobe Lightroom 2 a good easy tool to use for editing your RAW files, i was a newbie, and it didnt take me long to work out how to use it, you can use photoshop aswell, but i find photoshop quite difficult to use, and find lightroom 2 fullfills most of my post processing requirements.
 
Editing in RAW depends on what software you are using. In photoshop CS3 running the latest ACR software you can edit loads of parameters.

Not only can you adjust the level of exposure , but use recovery to bring back "blown" highlights ( within reason). The "Fill Light" function is also really useful.

Using ACR to edit RAW, ( you can also edit jpegs as well as RAW) takes on a whole new method of image editing.

Look up some of the tutorials on the web. Alternatively try Lightroom tutorials for the develop setion as a lot of the techniques are the same as the same processing engine is used in both
 
I shot a few pictures in RAW today (mainly because i forgot to change the setting back to jpeg.... woops!)
however i thought rather than delete ill test my knowledge
and here are my results! (few lil edits on computer (colour etc)

photo11.jpg
 
If you are a newbie I can't recommend Lightroom 2 enough at the moment. I have used Photoshop sporadically in the past, but I tried LR 2 the other day to process some shots I had taken in Berlin shot in RAW. As a tool to 'develop' a series of photos (e.g. 1 x SD card worth), it is a much more straightforward tool to use, is much quicker for doing the same edits that you effectively would in Photoshop, and is much less demanding on the PC's resources.
 
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