RAW mode questions....

[Frisco]

I also wouldn't necessarily sell the wide angle to get a telephoto unless you've got a major budget constraint - it's not that one necessarily has advantages over the other, they are both useful but just in different circumstances. I actually use my wide angle far more than my telephoto...

 

[gregr]

Regarding image resizing- this article has tutorials for Photoshop/Imageready and Irfanview. I suspect that you may not be using Imageready to resize your images-- certainly there are many ways to go about resizing but Imageready is one of the best ways once you get used to it.
My thoughts on cropping- avoid all but minor crops unless absolutely necessary. Especially avoid enlarging the picture after a crop as it will greatly reduce image quality in most cases. If you don't have the right lens for the job and feel you must crop the picture to emphasize the subject, be sure you are shooting at the highest resolution the camera can be set to. If you're still shooting in RAW format that's good- do your editing with the tiff file and be sure not to re-save .jpg files as each time you save it it gets more and more compressed and the image quality suffers with each save.

 

[hoover86]

Thanks for the info guys. Yea I was trying to open up the RAW file in CS2 but apparently it's not the right format, at least that's the error I get. So I've been trying to edit it in the Pentax software I got for RAW files, and what a JOKE! So I'll try converting it to TIFF and then opening it in photoshop and see how I fare with that. Thanks again guys!!

 

[Frisco]

you just need the updated RAW importer plugin if the current version doesn't support your cam and can download it from the Adobe site

 

[Frisco]

I think this is the one you need

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3364

 

[hoover86]

That appears to be the right one but for some reason it's not working... I dowloaded it and extracted all files but there's only one, the Camera RAW plug-in file... and when I double click on it, it just opens CS2 and when I go to open the RAW file it says "Could not complete your request because its not the right kind of document".....

 

[Frisco]

you need to put it in a subfolder of the CS2 folder, not open it

 

[hoover86]

AHHHH, ok, got it figure out. Wow, It's a whole nother world when you open up RAW images... I was just getting used to the other tools and now it looks like I have to learn a whole new set!!