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| Thread ID: 40538 | 2003-12-10 19:21:00 | Raw image files | suethomo (4694) | Press F1 |
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| 199221 | 2003-12-10 19:21:00 | I wish to save some of my digital images as RAW images. The Canon camera came bundled with appropriate software for viewing and editing these (they are CRW images)- but how can I view them in Adobe Photoshop Album as thumbnails instead of as icons? (OS Windows XP) | suethomo (4694) | ||
| 199222 | 2003-12-10 20:11:00 | why RAW format? if you just want a lossless format then you could go for TIFF. |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 199223 | 2003-12-10 20:24:00 | Photoshop Album will mostly likely not be able to interpret them to make thumbnails. Each vendors' RAW format is proprietary -- hence the need for them to bundle their own software with the camera for you to view, adjust and convert RAW files into another format. RAW files are the ultimate digital "negative" since they literally preserves the "RAW" data without any in-camera adjustments. Thus for ulitimate flexibility in editing the image to get the best exposure, contrats etc etc, RAW files are good. If you really wnat to preview in Album, however, I suspect you'll need to save a jpg or tif copy alongside your RAW files and preview that instead. | Biggles (121) | ||
| 199224 | 2003-12-11 01:22:00 | It's worse than that. :D A raw file hasn't[/b] got [/b]a format. It's just a stream of bits. It's normally "lossfree". It's also quick to write, because it doesn't need any calculations on the data. How it is interpreted once the file is produiced is up to you. Or, preferably, the character who wrote it will have given you a way to decode and use it. ;-) A "well-known" file in a format like GIF, PNG, TIF, JPEG, PBM, ad libitum, ad nauseum, has a published (or hackable) standard and common packages can handle it. Anything called .raw or similar (.crw = Canon RAW?) is fine as long as it's kept in the software environment which produced it. If you need to use different software on the files, export them to a standard format (preferably a "lossless" one). |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 199225 | 2003-12-11 03:16:00 | Thanks for explanations - have also found out - if anyone is interested that Photoshop Album 2 now supports RAW formats from most major camera companies. | suethomo (4694) | ||
| 199226 | 2003-12-11 03:39:00 | Did you get Zoombrowser with your camera. Thats the one to use for downloading and viewing (the associated JPEG) and adjusting. But you save the adjustments to a recognisable format, as above, JPEG, Tiff (too big IMO), PSD, etc. If you don't have Zoombrowser or similar hop over to Powershot.com Download (www.powershot.com) and grab the File Viewer Utility. It doesn't matter if you don't have a Powershot, I don't. I think there is a plugin for Photshop for CRW files, there is for Irfanview. Cheers Murray P |
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