manage photos

[Jan Claeys]

Op vrijdag 24-11-2006 om 08:32 uur [tijdzone +1100], schreef Cefiar:
> On Friday 24 November 2006 06:13, Jan Claeys wrote:
> > Op donderdag 23-11-2006 om 11:29 uur [tijdzone +1100], schreef Cefiar:
> > > So, breaking it down into points, basically the process you're using
> > > here is:
> > >  Camera takes RAW
> > >  RAW moved to PC
> >
> > I think there might be an intermediate step here, for processing the RAW
> > data before converting them to something a "normal" paint program can
> > use?
> >
> > >  RAW converted to PSD/TIFF
> 
> That's the next step here. The raw data out of most of the pro cameras is 
> vendor specific (and even model specific), but conversion to some other 
> format (I was using his examples as to the format used) is the main part, 
> even if that is an in-memory format. The actual conversion process has a huge 
> number of settings that you can change that alter how the image is imported. 
> This doesn't just apply to things like how much of the image to import (eg: 
> only one colour like green, which is useful for making monochrome images out 
> of colour ones), but also things like changing the white balance and the 
> colour balance to name just a few.
> 
> There's a LOT of settings here, and you can make a lot of improvements to the 
> base shot at this time, all pre-editing. If this saves you doing editing 
> later, then it's really useful, and some of these settings allow you to get 
> back useful images that would otherwise prove hopeless. This is particularly 
> useful when you have a lot of images to import, and they were all taken under 
> the same conditions (eg: studios with fixed lighting). It would be very 
> useful if you could have profiles of such settings, so apart from the last 
> used one (great for small numbers of photos at the same time), you could save 
> the import settings so that you could recall them up at a later time. 

Hm, I would include those RAW processing settings in the application
that stores, manages & organises the original RAW images, because
without it you can't really get a good impression of the RAW images.

Conversion is a step you only need to take *after* looking at the
available images, when you took a decision about which one(s) to use.
(Or so I think...)


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Jan Claeys