RAW post processing

[Inox]

I read on the S30 user manual that RAW images can be adjusted in contrast, sharpness, color saturation and white balancing using the Canon software, but I can't find the way (Zoombrowser seems to offer only RAW conversion...).
Can anybody help me?

[Wildman]

I can't talk about ZoomBrowser... I ditched it in favor of BreezeBrowser. In the conversion process you can select "as shot", "low", "medium" or "high" for saturation and sharpness and several settings for white balance. I suspect ZoomBrowser has similar settings in the conversion selection.

I would urge you to try BreezeBrowser. Some day ZoomBrowser will let you down. Look at the number of requests for help on this forum about problems with this software.

[Chazs]

I just played around with this last night. Click on your windows START button, PROGRAMS, CANON UTILITIES. You should see RAW Image Converter. (I'm using XP with the WIA driver, not TWAIN).

I compared two identical pictures using RAW and JPEG format. I'm convinced I saw a better quality picture after converting the RAW to 16-bit as opposed to the JPEG format. More comparisons this weekend.

Also, I discovered Photoshop Elements will not open a RAW file converted to 16-bit, but regular Photoshop 6.0 will. Hmmmm.