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A good Raw Viewer
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I took about 250 photos of First communion today but I have shot them all in RAW for the first time. I see now I can’t really preview them in windows to sort and discard and it will take me quite a while to open and save each image.I know there are viewers available for download but can anyone recommend a good one.Is is advisable to shoot in RAW when you would be taking so many photos,have I done the wrong thing.
Thanks
Damiangoogle picasa is free and you can view and edit raw files, might be worth investing in Photoshop if your gonna go down the RAW road, you certainly didn’t do the wrong thing in shooting so many RAW’s.
Hi Damian,
I would advocate shooting RAW but would recommend, in future,
setting you camera to save a Jpeg as well.
In this way you can view the photograph, on most computers anyway,
without having to open any software package.It does mean you need more memory both in your camera and your
computer but I don’t think this is as big an issue cost or availability wise
as it may have been in the past.But as Dermot said shooting RAW is not a mistake.
Good luck.
John.
Guys
Thanks for the replies, I’ve downloaded picasa and I can view them on that ,Excellent.
Dermot : I have photoshop but I was having to open each image to view,I was wanting something to do a quick scan over them and pick the best of.
John I’ve changed my setting on the camera to NEFF+JPEG, I hadn’t picked on that till you mentioned it.That should work fine for me.Thanks
DamianHi
I would recommend a utility that I use all the time called fasstone image viewer.
http://www.faststone.org/
It is free and you can integrate it with Photoshop i.e. you can assosciate faststone with photoshop so
that when you want to do more advanced editing than what you can do in faststone you can tell faststone
to open the image in photoshop. You can also do batch stuff like, resize for the web,
apply a watermark, apply a border etc (all very hand for flickr etc). You also get levels, colour, crop etc.It handled my canon raw files without installing any extra plugins etc to it.
Definitely shoot raw when you can.
Martin.
Windows live have a downloadable plug in option to view all raw images. It is good for sifting through the very obvious dud photos but I use photoshop cs4 for the rest as raw format gives you the option to rescue so many I had previously thought gone. You do have to go to adobe and d/l the relevant plug in for your camera though. At first I thought I could only 0pen one at a time but if you hold down ctrl and select however many then open, it will open them for you to browse and edit exp, clarity light wb etc. (obviously dependant on what your computer can cope with) I have opened 150 at one time and edited them all in bulk. When dealing with jpeg I think you can open a max of 16 in ps…. There is prob an easier way but until I figure it out this works lol
Use Bridge which comes with most versions of Photoshop to view your RAWs. You can Grade them, delete them, or reject them all from here and then open them as you want to from Bridge into PS. This is the process I use all the time. When you connect your camera to your PC open bridge and then File – Get photos from camera.
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