Hi, Why do you want to reproduce the same jpeg from the raw? If you're Ok with the out-of-camera jpeg you don't really need to tweak the raw. If you're not fully satisfied with the OOC jpeg, then it"s time to get what you expected from the raw. But then it means you don't want to get the same unsatisfying result. A camera manufacturer as Nikon is aware of what the camera did capture, of the captor strengths and weaknesses, of how the white balance should be done, aso. Furtherly, every camera maker do apply some enhancement and processing to their raw datas to deliver the most "eye-pleasing" jpeg, which should not be what you want. To get a good quality jpeg from your raw, first try to understand what has to be done to your raw datas: - white balance - exposure compensation - contrast - saturation - denoising - and many other things
Then I think it's not a good idea to save as jpeg right from RS; it 's probably more usefull to save as tiff-16 to be able to apply more powerfull effect in a photo-editing software (well, capable of 16bits/channel editing). Jpeg should be used to store and share your final image only, the jpeg should not be processed anymore. Also, you should notice that your display is probably an 8bit device, thus what you see on screen is not exactly what you have when working with a 16 bit image. So the understanding and the use of the histogram is mandatory. Regards, Ille Le Sat, 07 Jun 2014 23:45:49 +1000, Philip Rhoades <[email protected]> a écrit : > People, > > Recently I had to get a professional photographer to do some photos > of a woman for the front cover of my first eBook short story (Science > Fiction). The person who was going to process the the chosen image > wanted RAW format so the photographer provided me with both the RAW > images as well as the JPGs. In the end, the person who was going to > add the "cybernetic" feel to the photo didn't have time so I did it > myself. I ended up having to use the JPG because I couldn't see any > advantage in messing with the image first with RawStudio. > > However, during this process I played around with RS and became > intrigued with it's possibilities so I think I should be able to make > more use of it in the future but my question is this: While playing > around with the chosen JPG's corresponding RAW file, I couldn't > produce an image that was equivalent to the nice looking JPG that I > already had > - the RAW (Nikon) image started off being too green but that seemed > to be easily fixed - but no matter how many other sliders I played > with I couldn't improve the image to it's JPG quality - it must be > possible - how to do it? Is there a guru who is prepared to modify > my RAW image so that it looks identical to my JPG so I can then load > the RAW image into RS and see what was changed? > > Suggestions etc appreciated! > > Regards, > > Phil. _______________________________________________ Rawstudio-users mailing list [email protected] http://rawstudio.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rawstudio-users
