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Originally Posted by tommymc
I'd like to here about how everyone shoots. That is in the studio shooting in raw to print. WB setup, working with the raw image. What software programs to convert or working with the raw image to print. I cant seem to set up a good flow with raw. It seems to take me forever to get back to what I got in jpeg. I shoot with canon.
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There is really very little difference in the overall workflow. You do all the same things when shooting the photo that you do for JPG (set good WB, get the exposure as close to right on as you can, good composition, etc).
At this point you have a card full of RAW photos. If you have your RAW converter's defaults set up properly, then when you view the photo in the RAW converter, it should look about like the JPG would have looked right from the camera. If it doesn't look that way, then you probably don't have the defaults set for your Camera and/or working style.
If you have the right software, you can extract the embedded JPG that is in the RAW file and look at it to see how it compares (I use BreezeBrowser to do this, but there are other apps that will work).
I've already given my RAW workflow here:
http://www.glamour1.com/forums/digit...low#post219883
I currently use Photoshop CS3 and the ACR (RAW converter) that comes with that. I've found it to be the most powerful and straightforward to use. The above link is with CS or CS2 (I don't remember off hand).
If you need to calibrate CS3's ACR to your camera, then you can do this more or less automatically with a Macbeth Color card and this link:
http://www.fors.net/chromoholics/
Cheers,
rfs