Comments on: Processing RAW Files in Adobe Lightroom

By: dona eleni

dona eleni — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 05:47:01 +0000

5mb for raw is small file.
do you shoot in full quality?

By: Nicolene

Nicolene — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:17:41 +0000

I know you guys already spoken about Raw vs jpg a lot.

My question is: If I shoot in Raw my pics is 5mb up but as soon as I export it from lightroom to a jpg file it reduce the file size to 1mb below. Sometimes even in eg 857kb

Why is that and how can I fix it?

By: michaell

michaell — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:30:26 +0000

RAW is the way to go if you ply around with files in fotoshop or lightroom. Personally what i like is sharpening and noise reduction sliders,in JPEG camera sets those parameters at same level in all photos,what i do not like.If you shoot clouds or macro photo of an ant there different levels required.And yes,human eye can not see all those millions or billions colours available in RAW, but gives you so much flexibility in editing, especially if you are doing a lot of adjustments.Not talking only about exposure or brightness sliders.Lots of heavy editing,presets,actions,double presets.Tone splitting, HDR. If you shoot in RAW just to make picture look a little bit better than whatever camera gets in JPEG, do not bother using RAW.

By: td

td — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:33:31 +0000

@ Kelly

Generally the Raw + jpeg setting is for people who want to edit their Raw files but want to have a preview of the captured image. I think that setting is useless if you edit your photos to look exactly like the jpegs, you should just shoot jpeg, save yourself the time – especially if you compare the final raw and jpeg and can’t tell the difference!

To answer your question – Raw images are horrible to view but great to edit. Jpeg are great to view but not as good as Raw to edit. You need special software to view Raw files, but jpeg is a universal format that is supported everywhere. Generally for highest quality shoot and edit Raw but as you can see reading this article and comments it depends on what and why you are shooting and whether editing is necessary and works for you. There is no one correct workflow so you should find what suits you and use the workflow for your needs.

If you want to send your files to people or publish them on websites etc… You should convert to jpeg as this is the best viewing format. It is also personal preference and/or whether it is necessary to save higher quality versions with huge file sizes such as Tiff files as yes you do loose file size when you convert to jpeg. By this stage after editing you won’t really be able to tell the difference or the differences will be pretty minor between your edited Raw version and your saved edited jpeg.

By: kelly

kelly — Mon, 23 May 2011 05:13:22 +0000

hi, i shoot in raw and jpg fine. im a little unsure with it. im editing the raw files but do i save them as jpg after editing? or the images that get saved as already jpg do i edit those instead? is there a loss of file size editing in raw and converting them to jpg. sorry only new at this

thanks
kelly

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 03:25:24 +0000

The best thing about this entire article is the comment by Jeff Lowe where he spouts off such gems as ”
“Because you “like” how an image looks does not make it a properly exposed image.” HAHAHAHAHA. What a loser. Sorry Jeff, the inverse is true also….a properly exposed image doesn’t mean you will like it. Funny how your site is down now….out of business are we?

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 02:21:40 +0000

I would like to know if I can process RAW files from the new Canon S95 with the Lightroom 2 version? I am new to all this, have an older Mac that will only run Lightroom 2. I don’t have the Lightroom software yet but I would like to purchase a version on eBay. What I want to know is if this is at all possible before I get into it? I see there is a new version of Adobe Raw 6.3 and I’m wondering if this works with Lightroom 2? Sorry if I’m all over the place but like I said, I’m new to all this. Any advice???????????

By: Sii

Sii — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:10:09 +0000

About 6 months ago I discovered this artical and my first reaction was one of, good god how the hell do I do that and get my pictures to look as good as darren’s? but actualy, it realy is as simple as he makes it sound, one just needs the confidence to fiddle around.

The thing that gave me the confidence to ‘fiddle’ was that my camera, as I belive many do, has the option to save both a RAW copy and a JPEG copy of one exposure. I had the confindence of knowing that if I could not make anything of the RAW file I would still have the trusted JPEG to show for my ‘click’. Imagine my supprise when after a couple of hours of fiddling the RAW files I had been trying to prosses were coming out sharper, clearer, more vibrant and pleasing than any of the JPEGs.

A great artical and, as always, very encouraging.

I would like a more detailed and tecnical artical on the subject of RAW prossesing. I am finding I worry about things like white balence and exactly how much I sould be moving that saturation dial.

Many thanks,

Sii

By: DONNA

DONNA — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 06:06:06 +0000

VERY HELPFUL IM JUST READING AND IM GOING TO START SHOOTING IN RAW SOON THANKS LOVED THE ARTICLE

By: Oye

Oye — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 03:36:01 +0000

Hi,
Thanks for this tutorial. I have a question for you though. I took some raw images and I have been trying to use lightroom trial edition to save it as 750px by 150px. When i do the export it always defaults to 200px by 150px. How can I do this? I take pictures and use them for website headers. I want to be able to retain the quality. I have not had any luck doing this in lightroom.

Thanks.
Oye