 ANDRAY STROUD |
Shooting Raw ... By Mistake! I am a Photoshop CS3 novice, and I accidentally left my camera on the Raw setting while shooting a function. Not sure how but I had fired 60 images before I noticed. Nevertheless, I have CS3 and Lightroom. How can I convert my Raw images to JPEG? Please help.
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Richard Lynch |
Andray, Just do the following after downloading the images to your computer: 1. Open Photoshop. 2. Choose File>Open from the program menus. 3. Locate one of the files via the Open dialog, and click the Open button. 4. The image will open in the Camera RAW dialog. Click Open Image. 5. Convert the image to 8-bit by choosing 8-bit from the Image menu (Image>Mode>8-bit) 6. Choose Save As from the File menu. 7. Choose JPEG from the Format drop list. 8. Change the file name and location where you want it saved, then click Save. 9. When the JPEG options dialog appears, move the quality slider all the way right. 10. Click OK. This will save the highest quality JPEG. Others may chime in to tell you to make adjustments in RAW - but that is a whole additional can of worms.
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Pat Harry |
Richard, why do you do step 5 - convert to 8-bit?
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- Carlton Ward Contact Carlton Ward Carlton Ward's Gallery |
Pat, you can save 16 bit as TIFF but not as jpeg so you must convert to 8 bit first.
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Richard Lynch |
Carlton's got it. The other possibility would have been using Save For Web, but then there is a whole additional dialog to deal with.
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Pat Harry |
I've just never done that step. I do a "save as" and then select .jpg. Does this possibly do the conversion for me and I just didn't realize it?
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- Pamela Bosch Contact Pamela Bosch Pamela Bosch's Gallery |
You can covert by batch in Lightroom as well if you have imported them into Lightroom from your card. This will save your raw images and create a new set of JPEG files. 1. Select all the images in the library mode (CTRL-A). 2. Click on Export button in lower left side (library mode). 3. Follow the dialog boxes and choose where you want to store the files, how to name them and the quality. 4. New converted files will be saved in the new folder of your either created or used. You can then import the JPEG files into your Lightroom library. It's quick and easy. Pam Bosch
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Bunny Snow |
16-bits is huge. Especially as tif, it will clog up your computer and empty the amount of mega bytes you have within the computer in no time flat. 16 bits is wonderful to work in, but not for storing images. Bunny
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Zj >>> ZJ Images |
Another approach: 1)Go to Bridge 2)Select(ctrl+click) all images you want to convert 3)Under Tools/Photoshop/Image processor click 4)PS3 opens and presents a dialog box Make the changes you want here: JPEG file size, resize, quality and where you want to save the converted JPEGS. Now PS3 takes over the conversion of all your selected images.
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Mary C. Legg |
If you have software with the camera, it might give you very nice options such as with the Canon Digital Professional. I was intimidated by chatter on RAW, but I had no choice but to jump for it in situation and pressure I had. Everything was new to me and CS3 can be very unwieldy and doesn't like batching and tagging things easily. 1.Open the Canon software, click open he folder on the sidebar. You have options to do all your light editing, dust delete, exposure. 2.You can batch. Use your CTRL key +mouse click to highlight the images. 3. Right click mouse and choose "edit in edit window" if you wish to do any light editing and this helps you review what you really want to save. You can delete anything from the list which you wish to trash. 4.on top menu, choose Batch under file. Now you have several choices that are automatic. you can make your file tags for entire folder very easily. You can save 16bit, 8bit, JPG or tiff + thumbnail or customize your size and res.
anything I want to delete, I just don't batch and the file gets deleted. Maybe it seems like work, but it saves tons of space on my computer when I am shooting multiple 4gb cards a day. The quality of this batching is high enough to pass Alamy and AGE Fotostock and this was how I got my contract with AGE from the first images off the new camera with a portfolio of 100 butterflies in 6days. I'd never used RAW before, had no idea what EXIF data was or used Photoshop. CS3 was just horrible experience for me. It killed my computer. Now I used the CS3 for final edit of tiffs, but I am not techie oriented and have little skill for sophisticated photo editing. this cuts time for preparing new submission portfolios for stock photography because usually only low-res 72dpi small jpgs are wanted for the review round and at the same time I am able to spin off my 16bit tiffs into separate folder to await the final selection for final edit and jpg conversion or direct tiff submission. What remains rejected I can easily recycle to 2nd and 3d agents. It's not the easiest way to learn photography or a camera, but I made the jump with first images off the camera from the first 6days. I'd only used the small Kodak Z700 or Canon pocket before for a year. The 25th image of the Canon 400D is here on BP. Don't laugh, but I spent a day just practicing putting on the 100mm 2.8 lens so I would do it without anxiety. I should thank BP, because I received the contract from AGE Fotostock on the one-year anniversary of the Finalist recognition of Berger's Clouded Yellow with Kodak Z700 in Sept 2006. It took one year for me to move from the KodakZ700 to getting a exclusive stock agent contract. It's very hard work and I still don't know anything.
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Richard Lynch |
Pat, If you are not shooting in RAW or if you convert to 8-bit when you open, you don't have to convert to 8-bit again. I was assuming the RAW shots were being opened in 16-bit. Bunny, Mary, Richard Lynch
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