Shooting RAW Help

I hope someone can help me out here, i have never shot RAW before only JPEG and it something i want to get into but i really haven't a clue what to do once i have shot the images. Can anyone be so kind to go the the process of what to do.

Cheers,

Darren

Easiest way is to just let DPP convert the pics to jpegs for you using the camera settings. Then as you get use to the tools start moving sliders around and watch the effect it has on the image.

Also there is a DPP tutorial which does a pretty decent job explaining much of the basics. It's a little old but most of the features are still there
http://www.usa.canon.c​om/content/dpp2/

http://www.ronbigelow.​com …_basic/workflow​_basic.htm
http://www.ronbigelow.​com/articles/raw/raw.h​tm
This site is the best source for tutorials that I've seen and these two articles will teach you how to process a RAW file and also will give you the understanding of what exactly RAW is and what advantages you can get from it.

I too shot mostly in jpg, but prompted by everyone extolling the aditional flexibility of shooting in RAW, I gave it a go. I don't doubt that RAW does give you more control, but I found that for the majority of my images the additional control wasn't required, and the additional processing was just a faff.

I have now gone back to shooting jpg most of the time, only shooting in RAW when I know that I definitely will require the extra control.

When i download a raw image onto my comp then open DPP the raw image thumbnail has no image in it just a grey box with a cross through it, HELP

Hope you don't mind me asking put when batch processing in DPP whats the best dpi for output setting and what is the embed icc profile?

Cheers

darren h wrote in post #6620632
When i download a raw image onto my comp then open DPP the raw image thumbnail has no image in it just a grey box with a cross through it, HELP

Get the latest version of DPP from the Canon web site.

darren h wrote in post #6621015
Hope you don't mind me asking put when batch processing in DPP whats the best dpi for output setting and what is the embed icc profile?

Cheers

For most uses, you want to set your jpeg or tiff to the sRGB color space when you export. The dpi value does not matter for most uses. Some lab printers ask for a specific dpi value (typically 300) but you don't need to mess with it otherwise.