What you can do with RAW! (warning large file)

[dragoneggs]

These particular shots were taken with my Canon 20D, 100mm macro in RAW format. I used Digital Photo Professional, DPP which is software that comes with the camera. It allows trimming, resizing, white balance, color adjustment, saturation, brightness, and sharpness as well as histogram control. You can also convert the file to many different file types or import to photoshop. It also acts as a very nice browser for viewing, sorting, file renaming with easy batch processing as well. Very powerful and easy to use.

 

[Sushi Reef]

These particular shots were taken with my Canon 20D, 100mm macro in RAW format. I used Digital Photo Professional, DPP which is software that comes with the camera. It allows trimming, resizing, white balance, color adjustment, saturation, brightness, and sharpness as well as histogram control. You can also convert the file to many different file types or import to photoshop. It also acts as a very nice browser for viewing, sorting, file renaming with easy batch processing as well. Very powerful and easy to use.

how do you like DPP compared to photoshop?


20d is a god to me.

XTi for me when i get my tax returns


i'm a noob when it comes to dslr

 

[dragoneggs]

First, DPP is free and comes with Canon DSLR camera. Second, it is much easier, faster to use. Third, it is all you need for most proprocessing needs such as exposure, color, cropping, resizing, reformatting.

Photoshop is the God but overkill for most web photos or 4in by 6in printing. I love Photoshop but find I don't use it unless I really want to make a large print and need to do some serious post processing. The only thing that holds back the power of Photoshop is the knowledge of the operator.

I would start by using and learning DPP. You may find that is all you need unless you get into some creative photo editing or precise color work.

 

[edwing206]

do nikons have the RAW setting?

 

[edwing206]

nevermind. it looks like the d50 does.

 

[dragoneggs]

do nikons have the RAW setting?

I happen to be a canon user so I am not sure of the terminology but the Nikon DSLRs should have a 'native' or RAW setting that basically means the camera does no processing of the image. If you shoot RAW you will get a very large file size, if you shoot jpeg, the camera does some processing and greatly reduces the file size. The problem is that you can not recover the lost pixels if you need to change the image so you are very limited in what you can do to manipulate the image unless you start with an unprocessed (RAW) image.

 

[edwing206]

ok thanks for the help.

 

[Llarian]

Nikons leave you with an NRF file instead of a CRW/CR2, but the concept is the same.

DPP isn't bad, but I might suggest checking out Adobe Lightroom now that its released. The nice thing about it is that its vendor agnostic, so if you switch from a Canon to a Nikon at some point, you don't need to learn a new piece of software, nor do you need to convert all your old photos into some non-raw format.

-Dylan

 

[dragoneggs]

This is the reason to always shoot in RAW if the camera has the ability, it leaves a good margin for error in white balance among other things. Good shots.

Thanks Blazer... but I can't hold a candle... I mean an LED flashlight to you!

 

[MarineTeng]

Nikons leave you with an NRF file instead of a CRW/CR2, but the concept is the same.

DPP isn't bad, but I might suggest checking out Adobe Lightroom now that its released. The nice thing about it is that its vendor agnostic, so if you switch from a Canon to a Nikon at some point, you don't need to learn a new piece of software, nor do you need to convert all your old photos into some non-raw format.

-Dylan

I have a nikon d50 and have been testing out the RAW format, i can't find a reader for it yet though, it's actually a NEF file rather than a NRF file as mentioned above, i've tried opening with adobe photoshop 7.0 among other standard windows programs but it won't do it for some reason, i've read something about a plug in to windows so that it can read it but haven't found it yet

 

[Blazer88]

I think CS2 will be able to open RAW files if you have the Adobe RAW converter but PS7 won't. Gotta upgrade man!

 

[Sushi Reef]

First, DPP is free and comes with Canon DSLR camera. Second, it is much easier, faster to use. Third, it is all you need for most proprocessing needs such as exposure, color, cropping, resizing, reformatting.

Photoshop is the God but overkill for most web photos or 4in by 6in printing. I love Photoshop but find I don't use it unless I really want to make a large print and need to do some serious post processing. The only thing that holds back the power of Photoshop is the knowledge of the operator.

I would start by using and learning DPP. You may find that is all you need unless you get into some creative photo editing or precise color work.

i've had CS2 for about a year or more... so i've had time to play with it and of course am still a n00b when it comes to the depth of the program.... the first paragraph was exactly what i was looking for. thanks