Hi Marnie...
I realize that about .jpgs... geez you must think I'm an idiot... :)
I was referring to the part of a workflow that automatically makes adjustments to the image. Contrast, brightness, color, sharpening, etc.
Tom C.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Best all around RAW converter/manager(s)?? Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 01:00:12 EST
In a message dated 3/12/2005 5:27:16 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's two questions I have for those out there that have worked with RAW for a while:
1. How do you know that your RAW workflow, assuming one's being used,
consistently produces better results than the in-camera processing would
have produced?
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Well, I don't know for sure, but I am pretty sure. And I don't base this on
converters, or having done a lot of photo editing, or anything else but my
experience in using both PaintShop Pro's PSP files and Photoshop's PSD files. I've
done a fair amount of graphic drawing/painting in the past and what I found
was that jpegs degrade with each save. So I worked with PSP files only (now PSD
files) which do NOT degrade at all. You can edit and save and edit and save
and go back and they still look good. If you try that on a jpeg you can
literally, I mean literally, see it degrade each time. For web pages, I would turn a
finalized version of a PSP/PSD file into a jpeg (while still having the
PSD/PSD file saved).
Ergo, RAW to PSD or PSP -- no information loss. Simply the best way to go for
the very best images, IF you do a lot of post processing or even ANY post
processing. If not, then you don't need it.
HTH, Marnie
