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raw lets you adjust a lot of settings after you take a picture just like you would do before you actually took the picture. Wikipedia has a pretty good article on it with some links at the bottom that you can use to get more info:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format
hope this helped.
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narcolanza edited this topic 54 months ago.
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Think of RAW like a digital Negative and a JPEG like a finished print...
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yup.
and get adobe lightroom.
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thanks guys....is there any freeware that runs like adobe lightroom?
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Basically RAW lets you correct some things you overlooked when taking a photo. See here for my simple explanation of what raw is and why I use it.
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The raw format is the 1on1 file the CCD creates when you take a picture; just like the negative of Weinheimerphoto. The file doesn't under go any processing or "development". JPEG files are compressed images and therefore already processed by the camera. So, when you want to fiddle with your photo, you’re not working with basic image.
When you’re going to shoot in raw format, us a big memory card. As raw file are not compressed, they take up a lot of space. 15MB per file is normal. So, on the ridiculous 32MB card Canon gave you, you can only make 2 photos when you’re lucky.
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RAW files actually are compressed. But they use lossless compression not to lose any information (something like zip or rar use). My G9 raw files are usually somewhere between 10 and 15MB.
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As for processing RAW, Lightroom is certainly the way to go, but you can also get the same thing with Adobe Camera Raw, which comes installed with Photoshop CS2 and 3.
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Hi Susan.smolnikar,
Thanks for the update on the issue of compression!
Photolab.AJ
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ACR is also included in Photoshop Elements 6.
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Cool to know that.
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