RAW??

[MrKickalot]

Now that I have figured out the camera I am going to start shooting RAW and learning how to edit them. I am currently using Photoshop Element(is it true I can upgrade to Photoshop CS for $300). I haven't tried to bring RAW's into Photoshop, do you have to save it with Canon's software to a TIFF then open it?? If you can bring it into Photoshop as a RAW and edit is what do you save it as? Is there any loss of quality if I save pictures in Photoshop format? How much is lost when Photoshop converts it to JPG (most online photo places I have used so far want JPG).

Thanks

[CyberDyneSystems]

1. Yes,. you can upgrade to CS for about $300.00 (I don't remember the exact amout)

2. If you use Elelments or Photoshop 7.01 you can not work directly with RAW files,. you will need to convert using the Canon utility or another utility,.. or get the RAW pluging (which is in fact no longer availble)

If you use Photoshop CS the RAW support is built in...

This is the way to go,. use an app with built in RAW support like Photoshop CS or "Capture 1 le"

If you are allready familiar with Photoshop or Elemnets,.. I highly recomend that you go that route.

I use Photoshop 7.01 with the Adobe RAW plugin currently and love it. It is an amazing tool indeeed,. and all of what I have read and seen indicate that the improvements that CS include make it even more powerfull.

[Ferdinand]

After shooting in Canon's RAW format you need to convert it to TIFF using the software that comes with the camera before you can open it with Photoshop Element 2.0 or Photoshop 1.X ~ 7.X

However, Photoshop CS has native support for Canon's RAW (*.CRW) format, so you do not have to use any conversion program to convert it to TIFF.

TIFF and RAW are both lose-less format.

As to how much you lose when saving as JPEG will depend on what sort of quality you ask your program to save it as.

Tally Ho Lads... Happy Shooting.

Ferdinand

[CyberDyneSystems]

3> If you work directly with a RAW file in CS,. then yes you are on the right track,. you still need to save it as another format,. tiff or Adobe .psd

This is actually an advantage in many ways,. it absolutely prohibits one from re-saving the RAW data... (which would make it "raw" no longer :) )

...but by using an app wit built in RAW support you still able to work with the RAW data directly...

The conversion in this case does not loose any of the raw data. The resulting tiff is in no way "compressed" or compromised as far as image quality,.. in fact quite the opposite is true,. the Tiff file will be a much larger file than the raw data file. This is because RAW files are smaller,.. (part of the advantage of raw) than an uncopressed image format file like tiff,. which is a whole 'nother story :D