topic Re: Raw format convertor in General Discussion

Raw format convertor

roshaanzafar487 — Sun, 07 May 2017 20:01:36 GMT

Someone can help me please.. I made photos In cannon camera.. which are in raw format.. they don't display In my laptop.. someone can help me.. how to convert them into jpg or jpeg format. I'll be thankful

Re: Raw format convertor

RobertTheFat — Sun, 07 May 2017 22:26:08 GMT

There are several photo editors that can do it. Start by trying Digital Photo Professional, which comes free with any serious Canon camera.

Re: Raw format convertor

ebiggs1 — Mon, 08 May 2017 14:34:29 GMT

"...they don't display In my laptop..."

You need to update your laptop.

"...how to convert them into jpg"

For this you do need a post editor. DPP form Canon is free and there are others that are also free. But the best editors are Lightroom or Photoshop.

Re: Raw format convertor

BurnUnit — Mon, 08 May 2017 19:21:02 GMT

Don't know which camera you have, but with the 60D you can do some limited editing and cropping in camera and save the results as jpegs. It's a little clumsy and the camera's LCD isn't the best way to adjust colors and contrast but it might get you out of a jam. Also you can probably set your camera to shoot RAW+jpeg if you just need a way to quickly download images to preview on your laptop.

You might also consider adding Irfanview image viewer to your laptop. It's free to download and will open most RAW files but I don't think it will do any RAW conversions or editing.

Re: Raw format convertor

roshaanzafar487 — Mon, 08 May 2017 21:06:31 GMT

Thanks a lot

Re: Raw format convertor

ScottyP — Tue, 09 May 2017 15:27:39 GMT

But remember the last thing you want to do would be to just convert the RAW image directly into a JPEG without doing some post processing. Raw images are very dull looking because they were not tweaked in camera to boost the saturation and sharpness and contrast etc. etc. raw files allow you freedom to edit; that is their benefit. A JPEG file has had some of its data discarded in camera so the JPEG out of the camera cannot be adjusted as much as a raw file can. If you miss that opportunity to process the image in raw and simply create a very dull jpg file from your raw file, you will be forced to do heavy editing on a JPEG to make it look decent and it may not come out looking good. DPP will do it and lightroom is better.