On Mar 5, 10:55 am, "norven_munky" <tony.mce...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> A couple of years ago I bought a dslr and started shooting raw. The
change
> to raw combined with my time being at a premium after the birth of my
son
> resulted in a mountain of images to be sorted/deleted etc.
>
> I click the shutter too many times and tend to really procrastinate over
> what to delete, which is the pick of the bunch etc. Raw made that
process
> even more complicated and time consuming.
>
> Up until now I hadn't really found an easy way to quickly *****s both
the
> raws & the jpg's and decide what needed fixing, what needed deleting.
etc.
> and more im****tantly it was a pita...I'd end up using a windows
slideshow to
> decide what to cull but then I'd have to go find the associated raw to
> delete as well and it was just a major put off and made photography less
fun
> :(
>
> Enter picasa. Without knowing too much about it I loaded it, pointed it
at
> my image directories and let it go. I didn't even know it had raw
sup****t
> till after I started using it.
>
> It has made managing my photos so much easier.
>
> - I get to see the raw & jpg side by side.
> - deciding what to delete is a lot easier.
> - I can quickly delete both the raw & jpg without having to go hunting
for
> the raw.
> - I can quickly make edits to the raw that result in a much better
result
> than the canon jpg
> - when I save the edits as a jpg it quarantines the original raw off for
me.
> - I can quickly decide when an image isn't im****tant enough to require
the
> raw be kept and quickly delete it.
> - the simplified tools might not be as powerful as PS or RSE etc but
they do
> a remarkably good job.
>
> I'm back in the game!
>
> Tony
couple of things I've found out.
1) when you save sharpening done by picasa gets 'lost' although other
edits are ok.
2) picasa doesn't read the exif info for my canon cr2 raw files. And
obviously making edits to the raw image then saving it as a jpg dosn't
preserve the exif info. Although it does preserve the raw original so
your exif info isn't lost totally, you just need to use another editor
or exif viewer to get at it. It would be nice to be able to see the
exif data of raw files in picasa and it would be even nicer if the
searching by exif values that picasa does would also work on raw.
Tony
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