Vee Loc: Mountain View, CA

I don't know what you use to send RAW file's, but I have to convert my file's in order to send them. The only places that I can see my RAW file's is my Canon photo softwate or, my pictures live.

I tried to send one but I don't think that it happened.
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Gene1119 Loc: New Bedford

I just joined today and this is my first response. Your RAW photo was 20 MB in size which is large for most e-mail providers. I converted the picture which did send, and it was only 800K as a JPEG.

arphot Loc: Massachusetts

Where would you like to send them?

A free software called FastStone: http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm also can enable viewing rather than opening your editor which.

Yahoo! Email allows 25 Megs ;)

Vee Loc: Mountain View, CA

That was nice of you.

Someone asked for a photo of mine in it's RAW form, so, I was trying to send it in its RAW form, if I had converted it to JPG to send, it woould have lost some of the detail in order to compress to JPG. So, I wanted to see what would happen if I tried sending it as a RAW file.

Thank you for the info., I appreciate it. :D

arphot Loc: Massachusetts

U bet!

Starr Loc: St. Louis, MO

You have to convent all RAW files to a different format to send. See if your camera has an option to shoot RAW + JPEG. Then you can send the JPEG and use the RAW files to work on in Photoshop.

arphot Loc: Massachusetts

I'm pretty sure you don't have to convent anything ;)
Most likely this person meant post, not send. but, I get it, the "Send button on the reply is probably what you mean.

Vee Loc: Mountain View, CA

Oh I know that you have to convert the files, this is what I am already doing. Someone wanted to see some of my images in the RAW format. For what reason, I have no idea. Once converted to JPG, it is no longer RAW, but compressed to become JPG. This person does not post process RAW files, but put them up as is.

I have my camera set for both, so when I shoot (1) image, it is both RAW, and JPG. I post process the RAW file, then I convert it to JPG to send.

I delete the JPG when I'm finished, and save the RAW files on my external hard drive.

Thanks for taking the time to give me the info.
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toddward Loc: Edmond, OK

You can go to www.yousendit.com and use their service to send large files. I send files up to 2 gig using their service.

Vee Loc: Mountain View, CA

Thank you very much for the info. ;-)

RonaldLewis Loc: Chicago, Illinois

Raw files have to be converted to do anything with them. If you are a Canon shooter they give you software called Digital Professional where you can convert your images into JPEGS once you have edited them. You can also do this in Lightroom, Photoshop, and other image editing programs. I cannot tell you the exact process because I rarely shoot in raw, although many professionals recommend shooting in RAW. I know you have to set your camera for Raw and then download it to your computer in one in one of the above mentioned programs.

Vee Loc: Mountain View, CA

You are totally correct :-)

drjuice

One thing that you might want to know about sending RAW files is that the issue concerning RAW files is not one of what the web does or won't do. Rather it is that, unless the recipient has FastStone (a definite keeper by the way) or some other, usually proprietary, software to be able to view the image.

RAW files are NOT a "viewable" format without the software. Companies like Adobe, Tiffen, etc., try to keep up with the changes that each camera vendor makes to its own proprietary RAW format , but it does take some time after we go buy a new camera before software, other than that included on the CD/DVD in the box with the camera, can include modified software to read the modified RAW format.

If you want a separate, open source application that can be used to create TIFF files from RAW for just about any well-known camera brand, you might want to google dcraw which, at the moment, is a C application. It's not rocket science to view the internal help file (dcraw -h) and build your own version of a .bat file on PCs. I've started making a Java version with Dave's permission, but it will be a while before it's ready as I've started on another project that is not open source. When I finish the Java version, it will be available as an open source app.

Hope this helps.

drjuice

Vee Loc: Mountain View, CA

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