Digital BW, The Print

> From: frankjay02
> 
> Thanks Paul, most of what you said I know, some I didn't...after 
> reading your post, I dragged a CAnon RAW file to CS2 and it opened  
> up in the RAW converter. When it is in that converter I am limited 
> to what only can be done in that converter itself, not in CS2 
> (editing program. I then have to convert it to something else, which 
> I always do TIFF before I edit it. 

The raw converter gives you a bunch of options, but the most important one
is the Exposure. You should set this to best fit the histogram, so that you
don't clip any highlights. But then you have a choice between saving the
image directly from the raw converter, or just opening it in Photoshop
without first saving it. The only time I ever tell it to save is if I'm
doing the same conversion on a bunch of related images which I want to open
in a separate program, typically for panorama stitching. Normally, I just
open a single image into Photoshop, and do my edits there, without ever
saving an intermediate un-edited TIFF. So if you do that, the only
difference between opening a raw file and opening a JPEG is that in the
former case you have some knobs to twiddle first.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
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