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Subject: Re: [Rawstudio-users] Using RawStudio (newbie)
Date: 2014-06-10 18:47
From: Philip Rhoades <[email protected]>
To: Ille <[email protected]>
Reply-To:
Ille,
On 2014-06-10 00:10, Ille wrote:
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.
It is more an interesting exercise for me - it has to be possible but I
couldn't do it, so I wanted to see how it could be done. I have made
the RAW and JPG available (on Google Docs) to Gert who said he was
interested in the exercise - I could do the same for other people if
they are interested?
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.
No, I was pretty happy with JPG - I just wanted to see how to produce
the same thing from the RAW file with RawStudio so I could learn how to
use RS a bit more.
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.
Yep, it did do that - now I want to know how to do it!
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.
Right.
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.
OK - I know nothing about that area so I will need to read up about it
etc.
Is it OK to forward this reply to the mailing list as well?
Thanks!
Phil.
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.
Srejector: 20140610.001905
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Philip Rhoades
GPO Box 3411
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia
E-mail: [email protected]
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