STOP PRESS NEWS!!!!!......If you go to majorgeek.com you will find a freeware application called High Quality Photo Resizer.....it saves in bmp,tif,jpeg and targa formats....it is by Naturpic and on their site you will find several other handing conversion applications.......all FREE!!!! :congrats 😎 ;)
Well, something must be wrong here, its the only site I am not able to open.need to check my network. Thanks Iain, anyway. ;)
There we go Artur....checked it to make sure it worked..... :congrats 😎 ;)
Have you been going there via the link at majorgeek.com Artur? :Smile
Yes Iain, with no success.Will try again later :Happy
Have you been going there via the link at majorgeek.com Artur? :Smile
Since yesterday I am not able to open their site. :, :brb
Thank you Iain! Thats a useful program - and an interesting site, too! :congrats
Yes Fred, quality is degraded every time you open, edit and close a JPEG capture. In your case,- if I may suggest - my basic suggestion would be to capture at your camera highest JPEG quality setting - your Pan only has JPEG capture - ( which is in your case is 2560x1920). After the 1st fase of editing ( for me the first fase is adjust any gamma,white balance,curves or contrast if needed and crop the unnecessary parts - if there is some ) and then save the result as TIFF ( this will be your master edited copy + the original JPEG from the camera which remains the unedited image ). Then,already with the TIFF, make the cropping/resizing, - do not forget to adjust sharpness after resizing if necesssary - and if satisfied with the result, save it now in JPEG highest quaility (100) if you want to share your image. If not, save this final copy again as TIFF ( with a diferent ref ) just in case one day you want to transform it in JPEG without the hassle of doing everything again. :Happy HH
As said, raw file formats are proprietary, and differ greatly from one manufacturer to another, and sometimes between cameras made by one manufacturer. In 2004 Adobe Systems published the Digital Negative Specification (DNG), which is intended to be a unified raw format. In 2006, a few camera manufacturers have started to announce support for DNG in newer camera models, including Leica & Pentax (native camera support) and Hasselblad (export). Other manufacturers, however, appear to have little interest making their raw files easier to read: cameras from Canon, Nikon, Sony and others include elements of encryption designed to make it harder for others to decode the format.What´s the point on this? I do not know, really. The Leica Digital Modul-R (DMR) was the first camera to use DNG as its native format. <br /> |O|
That´s good news, Ernie. I am happy about it.Really :congrats |O| :Happy HH
I´ve been using the Adobe Raw plugin to start post processing, then into CS2 to finish, then saving in JPEG for uploading. I´ve notice that the displayed image in my browser never looks like the image in CS2, mostly a loss of color. I downloaded the beta Adobe Lightroom and was very impressed with it and then imported the image into to CS2 in the TIFF format, but again the same results with the JPEG file. After reading - third parties raw converters can not read the exact data as the natives (camera brands) raw converters do- I went back and loaded one of my RAW files with the native converter and then into CS2 in TIFF and saved in JPEG and quess what? The image in the browser looks the same as the image in CS2!!! Although the Adobe plugin and Lightroom support my camera, when I saved in JPEG the resulting image was very disapointing. Now the problem is solved. If I had not read your statement about third parties RAW converters, I´am not sure I would have every figured it out.
I always capture in my max resolution... I have a 2 GB card, plenty of room... I would never have saved in TIFF before reading this stuff. Great educational tools here. <br /> <br /> :congrats :congrats :congrats HH
Its a pleasure to share, Bruno |O| :Happy
I will, I will.... for the sake of better informed and prepared photographers. I have no secrets, I had also to learn.!!! Happy |O|
Very interesting... <br />Thanks for sharing Artur!:D
Cool information! Keep the stream of knowlege coming! 😎
