RAW Essentials - Problem

Admin Location : East Midlands Spotter Watch Member : Yes

On Monday I was lucky to take a day off work, and venture out to the South of the Midlands.

This year I have decided to shoot in RAW.

However to get used to converting from RAW, I shot in RAW+L therefore I have a JPG version and the CR2 version of the same picture on my CF card.

So when it came to editing my pictures, I first used RAW Essentials, adjusted the light, exposure, removed some noise and did some sharpening. On screen the final image was really good.

So when it came to saving to JPEG and comparing the processed jpeg, against the one that was on the CF card.

The processed file looked awful and totally different before I saved it as a JPG, as when I previewed it, it contained alot more noise,and it seemed more out of focus.

So I did the same thing with Lightroom. And again the processed file contained more noise then the processed file in RAW Essentials.

Is there something extra in the processing that I should be doing? Because if this is the case, I may as well stick to Large JPG and use Lightroom and change the radius in the development to improve the picture.

Location : Oxfordshire

Hmmmn, not sure I can give answers to much of that, but just in case you were using Windows Fax+Picture viewer (or whatever it's called) for anything other than a cautionary look, even properly processed images look soft and can seem poorly coloured compared with dedicated imaging programs such as PS or even the supplied-with-camera 'EOS viewer' program.

I have no problems converting RAW in CaptureOne and the saved jpegs do tend to turn out a lot better than a comparative jpeg, so unless you have a rogue setting somewhere in your RAW program, I'm stuck for easy answers.

Sorry!

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It was previewed in Fireworks and also Lightbook.

As well as the default Preview MS Image in XP PRo.

I have some Photo Shop software and the EOS disk somewhere

Admin Location : Birmingham B17

Two trains of thought here.And i am just guessing.One could be a problem with compressionof the file.Two could be a read problem with the file.As i say Lee i am only guessing as i shoot in Jpeg.

Jim.

Moderator Location : Between Coventry and Leicester

That can be a issue when viewing the edited image in the software you edited in.

the pic will look as you processed it say in photoshop .
but save it and open and view it in some other software like windows fax and picture viewer they will not look the same, as in the software you edited it in.

Not certain if windows pic viewer is 8 or 16bit and most editing software is 32bit. they will be other
other reasons also ,

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No wonder there is a huge market for these products.

One way I suppose is to host the images on photobucket and compare them on that.

I've got 84,000 images going back to 2006 since I started doing digital.

This is going to take longer than I thought.... lol!

Cheers for the input.

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84,000 pics not just a little longer proberly 2 years of messing around

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I've always been trigger happy.

In the old days of Film, my dad and I used to take around 50 - 60 rolls of 36/400s between us to airshows.

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Thats sounds about right my oldman used to do the same. Plus i just tought it was typical of him to do that as he is/was a professional photographer.