So what exactly is RAW? And do I need a special program for my canon powershot g12 in order to upload the RAW photos onto my computer? Because I can't seem to upload them unless I use iPhoto. And I believe iPhoto changes the extension.
@webfoot - thanks Paul, I understand; I thought maybe you were saying something more than that. I tend to do just the opposite - upload to PSE - make whatever mods I'm going to make there then save one copy as a jpeg in my iPhoto 365 file. I do love photographing in RAW though - it's made a big difference for the quality of my photos I think.
@lovebrittany Wrong! I don't have Photoshop, but have two free programmes instead - one called Gimp that is very like photoshop and a plug in for it called UFRaw, which are what I use for editing. The advice I have is that if you're just starting to experiment, then set your camera to shoot "RAW + JPEG" if you can.
@lovebrittany - I don't know which other apps can process RAW. If you're interested, it may be worth a search to see if there's something free, affordable, more user friendly (whatever would matter most to you). You can get great photos without it - so don't be discouraged. It's like saying you can't get a good photo with an inexpensive camera - not true. I had PSE (the much, much cheaper version of photoshop btw) and borrowed a friend's cam with RAW setting. I haven't given it back and that seems fine with her.
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