Working with RAW files in Photoshop CS
 

I have got Photoshop 8 to handle the RAW files from my D70.

how do ppl work with these? do you just open up the individual file, alter it if it needs it then save as a high quality jpeg?

I hope you have lots of RAM

:)

In CS, I don't think it lets you save RAW files as JEPGS. They have to be TIFFS or the Photoshop propriety version.

As for working with it, you just open it in CS, make any changes to the RAW you ant to, then click ok and it then produces an image that Photoshop can work with (e.g. adding layers etc.)
Geezer

ok- so once i am happy with the image do i save it as a tiff as that massive?

and i need MORE ram as this is sloooooow!

Probs be useful to upgrade your graphics hardware too.

One of these would help - http://www.ati.com/products/multimedia.html

UB:)

next on the list!

i have seen that PS will save it as a jpeg but this looese size so do i stick to tiffs?

It depends what you want really. If you want to publish the images on a website you will need .jpg format. But for archiving .tiff would be best so you can down-sample from that. RAW will be too large on disk unless they are particularly precious images. These days though, you could save the RAW data on DVD or summat.

angrynorth who works in publishing, and all the camera buffs on here can probably advise you better than I can though.

UB:)

the images are just kept for my own viewing on the pc- the odd good one gets printed to go on the wall.