It's only recently that I have started to post process in RAW format but I dont know what to SAVE my final image as in order to upload it onto 365project... TIFF, JPG etc.
I've converted my RAW file into a TIFF, but when I try to upload it onto here it won't find it from my files.
@scatcat Thanks... But if I do my adjustments in RAW and save as a JPEG, wont all the quality be lost in the save process? Can anyone advise me please?
Tiff is 'kina' like RAW... without getting too tech like... use JPG... in sRGB... and your troubles will end... of and select 100% for quality too... unless you mean to upload a lower resolution/compressed file so people cannot steal and print a perfect copy... ok said too much...
@jennlouise the quality is different of course but for Internet posting you will have to resize because your jpeg from the raw will be to big, so your eye won't perceive the lost of quality. It's more if you do multiple consecutive jpeg savings that you will lose quality. The main difference between the jpeg and raw is that once you converted your file to jpeg you cannot come back to some edits such as white balance, exposure, etc. But in addition to your jpeg copy, you can also save your changes in the Raw file (you can make a copy so that you do not erase the original). I don't do it, and just keep the original, but in some cases I would have liked to do it.
The web uses three image types by default, JPG, GIF and PNG. Nothing else, in terms of images. For photographs such as we see here, you'd always use JPG. Exporting JPGs at high enough quality settings in Lightroom/Photoshop/anything decent will still leave you with images looking near as damnit identical to what's on-screen in your RAW editor.
Then you upload here, the site downsamples them, and they look like crap (potentially). So just set your export quality to 80% or something and you'll be fine :)
@eyebrows but the "view other size' option of having a full sized original on the web to link, download and print to/from is nice... so I leave at 100%... but honestly all the same....
@eyebrows@icywarm@scatcat Thankyou guys for your opinions...'food for thought' for me certainly.
So for this project I should save as JPG in highest quality.... but what about in general when I want to transfer onto a flash stick and take the photo somewhere to be enlarged/put into canvas etc. I can't keep it as a RAW file can I?
I'm learning.... slowly. LOL
@icywarm Thank you for your help, I really appreciate this discussion. One more Q. then - I don't understand the point in shooting in RAW then if no one prints them off and the quality is lost when converted to smaller file, i.e JPEG. @eyebrows
@jennlouise RAW allows you to do more tinkering before pushing out that JPG, than'd be possible if you shot straight into JPG in the camera. So it's only if you're going to be doing white balance alterations and changing stuff that only RAW can change. One way of thinking of RAWs and JPGs is that RAWs are the equivalent of negatives in the film world, and JPGs the prints. Sort of.
@eyebrows OK now that makes sense to me... more flexibility with the RAW file than JPEG but it expected that a RAW file will eventually be converted to a JPEG file right? To either be printed off or uploaded etc. And not much quality will be lost?
Super! I'm so grateful for this discussion, I HAVE actually bought and read my Canon 550D field guide, which kinda touched upon the conversions of RAW but not much. THANKS *smiles*
@jennlouise Yeah, to do anything "with" it you'll almost always have to start by exporting a JPG, but you keep the RAW with all its extra data in case you need make further changes or do anything else down the line :)
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Then you upload here, the site downsamples them, and they look like crap (potentially). So just set your export quality to 80% or something and you'll be fine :)
So for this project I should save as JPG in highest quality.... but what about in general when I want to transfer onto a flash stick and take the photo somewhere to be enlarged/put into canvas etc. I can't keep it as a RAW file can I?
I'm learning.... slowly. LOL
Super! I'm so grateful for this discussion, I HAVE actually bought and read my Canon 550D field guide, which kinda touched upon the conversions of RAW but not much. THANKS *smiles*