Canon user pls help ...

[PnoyReefeR]

I need help and have a question about the RAW Image using Zoombrowser program. When I finished processing and want to save it what compression you guys uses ( 1,2,3,4 Best Image and what pixel/inch do you guys set?.. I have mine on 2 and 180 and seems like after saving it it looks a bit off from the original.. Pls post here on what should I do. I feel like I'm just wasting this nice SLR thanks...

also Im using Paintshop pro to resize it and not happy either. any help or info are appreciated.. thanks
steve

 

[kryppy]

Re: Canon user pls help ...

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9643259#post9643259 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by reeferpnoy
I need help and have a question about the RAW Image using Zoombrowser program. When I finished processing and want to save it what compression you guys uses ( 1,2,3,4 Best Image and what pixel/inch do you guys set?.. I have mine on 2 and 180 and seems like after saving it it looks a bit off from the original.. Pls post here on what should I do. I feel like I'm just wasting this nice SLR thanks...

also Im using Paintshop pro to resize it and not happy either. any help or info are appreciated.. thanks
steve

I can't help you with the raw conversion, but in PSP, if I don't use smart size check box, it wrecks the aspect ratio.

 

[PnoyReefeR]

Thanks I will try that...

 

[gregr]

What most people do is convert that raw file to a tiff and resize [and change to jpeg] from that file. With the tiff file there will be no quality loss at all. If you ever want to make a high quality print you'll want a tiff. The pixels per inch question relates to printing as well. For internet display 72 dpi is fine- 300 is what the printer would request for that high quality print. That tiff file is what you use as the "acrhive" file too, though you always save the raw file as well.
I've not used PSP so I don't know the options, but in Photoshop pictures saved at a quality level of 6 show minimal quality loss, below 5 you can see problems, but the file size gets very small.

 

[PnoyReefeR]

Greg thanks I save it right away as jpg file.. Ok I will look into that as well .. Thank you guys for the help...

 

[kryppy]

RAW & TIFF archives.. yikes. Might I ask how much HD storage you have Greg?

 

[gregr]

lol- tons. Luckily the price of hard drives has come way down. Right now I have about a terrabyte's worth of harddrives filled raw files. I don't convert everything to tiff files- just the "keepers" that I plan on working with, so it's a pretty small percentage. Even with just the raw files it's a lot of memory though.

 

[MCary]

Then of course there's writable cd's

 

[gregr]

I've got a box full of cd's too... but I went thru them a couple years ago to transfer all the keepers- and even after only a year or two some of the cds were bad. I recommend staying away from them due to those losses. Even if they didn't go bad, they are tons slower than hd's.

 

[kryppy]

Ha, writable CD's

I have 1 gb of pictures from a three day trip to Atlantic City in JPG, mostly 3-4M

Speaking of them, I just ruined a very good backup by lightly scratching the label. Anyone know what you can stick over that part to protect it?