Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

All you need to know is in your camera. You can use either the software that came with it to edit raw files or a third party app - Photoshop/Lightroom is by far the most popular choice these days. Take a picture as jpeg and raw simultaneously. I generally don't recommend this because you may be giving up some potential using a jpeg exposure setting when an image is shot raw and "exposed to the right" with highlights protected often provides better results - but for this exercise it will be illuminating nonetheless. Attempt to edit the jpeg in Photoshop and then do the same with the raw file in ACR or Lightroom. Try simple things, like adjusting the color and white balance, adding contrast and noise reduction locally to some areas and not others, desaturating and adjusting contrast and sharpness in areas other than the primary subject, etc. You're likely to come to the conclusion that it is far easier to do this on a raw file than on a jpeg. Put another way, to do this in Photoshop requires advanced skills, while the adjustments in ACR/Lightroom are far easier. Once you experience this, you'll be on your way to answering the question in your topic.

johngault007 Loc: Florida Panhandle

That has already been discussed, and I have a thumbs up to I think Trix for pointing it out. And I have no access to the DPP software, so it's still true for me

steve33 Loc: Yarmouth MA

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cameraf4 Loc: Delaware

I have not yet visited Kilkenny, Robert. Is it famous for contentious/combative people?

mizzee Loc: Boston,Ma

i was told that the in-camera settings were only applicable to jpegs and that raw was just raw.

Ysarex Loc: St. Louis

That's almost true but there are a few exceptions where a camera setting that's meant to produce a result in the camera JPEG also alters the raw data saved. Most notably the various camera's features designed to address high dynamic range lighting conditions will do this.

Joe

elliott937 Loc: St. Louis

I think you answered your own question. What I tell me students is this: RAW = film negative. Camera doesn't touch it. .jpg uses "decisions" that are on a microchip in your camera, and some programmer made decisions FOR you. If you have a good camera, why would you want someone else making decisions for you? Use RAW, so that you, the photographer, makes those important decisions.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

More than one page? What a surprise!

ltatko

Stop "chewing" him out!!

Just help!! That's the UHH mission!!


Len

cameraf4 Loc: Delaware

I agree, Len. But I think it would carry more weight if we knew who you were talking to (Quote Reply).

ltatko

The guy who didn't realize RAW was a UHH topic.

Jumping on him!!

Nicholas DeSciose

You are correct, the in camera adjustments only affect JPEG‘s. That’s the beauty of raw it’s a pure and perfect image. More than 80% of what you would ever need to do with one of your photographs can be accomplished in RAW

cameraf4 Loc: Delaware

Still not specific enough.

NCMtnMan Loc: N. Fork New River, Ashe Co., NC

Think about it like RAW is what film was in that it is just the data captured by the sensor. The vivid, detail etc is how you want the software in the camera to process the RAW data into a jpeg. PP software is like a darkroom in your computer where you take the "film (data)" to process it into a viewable picture. Digital data just gives you almost unlimited darkroom capabilities that were never imagined with film.

I hop this helps.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

Yes Yes Yes. You have it down pat and are "keyrect" Madam! (Doc)