Jeff Adams


RAW

Jeff Adams
Director, Educational Technology Center
Finger Lakes Community College
4355 Lakeshore Drive
Canandaigua, NY  144424
585-394-3500 ext 7286
adamsja@flcc.edu




Jeff's Digital Imaging Information
Home

Software
Basics

Differences between Elements and CS
Differences

CS info
Making the transition from Elements to CS

Photoshop Elements and CS Tutorials
Tutorials

RAW
RAW file management

Photoshop Extras
Plugins, Filters, Actions, Templates, Brushes, Fonts, Papers, and more!

Getting Correct Color (Color Management)
Color Management

Printing Tips and Help
Printing

Slide show software
(Elements version 6 has a very good slide show creation package built in featuring the ability to add music, narration, titles, timing to music tracks, and makes panning and zooming within a slide very easy, and the whole process integrates into the Adobe Premier Elements 4.0 video editor)
Slide shows made easy




RAW support information


Photoshop RAW support homepage

Editinig RAW files?  When in doubt read the application user's guides, here they are:
Elements 4   User Guide
Elements 5   User Guide

Adobe RAW file basics

Microsoft RAW image information

Luminous Landscape info on RAW

Combining multiple RAW images together?
Review this Myjanee.com web site for ways to combine two images using masks

Photoxcels info on RAW

Rob Sheppard on double-processing RAW files

NorthLight images.com

Dean McHugh's Cambridge in Colour tutorials - very well done


From the March 21, 2007 Workshop at FLCC


Exposure basics 101 - Typical JPG concerns:  highlights, shadows, expose to the right, 8 vs. 16 bit files, noise, levels, missing information in levels

Review Benefits of RAW files

Options for viewing RAW files:  Windows, Mac, ACDSee, Canon/Nikon/Pentax/Panasonic/Olympus camera software, Photoshop Elements, Photoshop, Bridge, Elements Organizer

How to update your RAW decoder in Elements or PS

How to view RAW files in Windows Explorer

How to update ACDSee to view RAW files

Main differences between Elements RAW decoder and CS2/CS3 RAW decoder

Resources:
Elements 5 RAW help
Elements 5 RAW (pages 156-163
section in User Guide .pdf )
CS2/3 RAW help (pages 207-226 in 851 pg User Guide .pdf)
Deke's CS RAW DVD
Deke's CS2 training DVD that came with software RAW demo
ACDSee and RAW
Books on RAW
NAPP
DVD on Raw parts 1 and 2 from  on DVD 3/8/2007
Luminous Landscape Raw DVD #12 and #13
Photoshop TV on Raw

Show:  Deke's CS RAW DVD

Open typical RAW file and explore options (highlights, shadows, warnings, bit depth, color correction, sharpening, etc.)

NAPP DVD on Raw parts 1 and 2 from  on DVD 3/8/2007

Opening multiple versions of the same RAW file in layers for optimal tone and color adjustments

RAW mode for black and white

Opening JPG's in CS3 RAW

RAW and color spaces (Pro Photo better for 16 bit only according to Tim Grey - see article)