RAW Workflow

[mike trump]

For those of you who shoot in RAW, what is your workflow from RAW to finished print?

[ginseng_sullivan]

i am using nikon nef files if that is any help, but here goes. open file in ps make exposure or wb adjustments. make further curves adjustments. make hue/saturation adj. convert to lab color, enter channels, select lightness channel. unsharp mask to your desire. mode convert to rgb color and save as a tiff file. psd files are lossless too but less universal than tiffs. this is all with the camera settings on nothing for adjustments and less contrast in contrast mode on a d100 or d1x (what i am familiar with). sharpening in lab color mode/lightness channel eliminates a lot of colored noise that comes from sharpening.works for me.

[Zach Matthews]

For me, it’s RAW saved directly to a Mac > opened in Adobe Lightroom > Reviewed and selected, then pulled out to Photoshop > Basic exposure work done, then saved into max JPEG > JPEGs are copied to an archive harddrive, then re-opened in my PC (I have a CRT monitor that I have simply used to color-correct everything so I am familiar with it and what I want.)

[Richard Bernabe]

NEF capture and open in either Adobe Camera RAW or Capture One Pro – depends on the image (if the image is ultra high-contrast, I prefer Capture One over Adobe Camera Raw. Abobe has problems with tonal gradations and posterization often occurs with high, high contrast images)

I make as many adjustments as possible in the RAW converter. I shoot in AdobeRGB, work in AdobeRGB. save in AdobeRGB. I set my image size to 200 percent and SAVE to dng. I prefer dngs to psds or keeping the original nef because it saves all of your RAW work without the sidecar file. dngs are slowly becoming universal in their acceptance.

Then I open straight to Photoshop. Make final touchups and save an unsharpened TIFF file to my harddrive, alongside the matching dng. The TIFF is a flattened 16-bit, AdobeRGB file, approximately 143 MB.

If I want to make a print, I open the TIFF in Photoshop then duplicate. Close the original and work with the copy only. If I want an 8×12 print, I resize to 8 x 12, 300 ppi. Convert from 16-bit to 8-bit. Then I sharpen the image for final output. I use Pixel Genius output sharpener. It automatically adjusts for ppi and image size.

[anonymous]

My own workflow- out of

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