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Photoshop help Anonymous
I've been using Photoshop for a long time, but there's something that always happens to me and I don't know how to fix it. When I open up a RAW file, it looks different from the Jpeg file (see picture).

Now, I haven't done anything to the RAW settings in Photoshop, I've simply clicked on the file in my Docs and that's what has been brought up. The Software seems to be set to open the file with the camera's settings, but obviously I've done something wrong.

In the picture, the photo in the left is how it's supposed to look, and the photo on the right is how the RAW file looks. Does anyone know how to sort that?
>> Anonyfag of Borneo !bHymOqU5YY
Perhaps it has something to do with going from 16-bit to 8.
>> Anonymous
>>101868
I hadn't considered that. Just checked, and it isn't that. Even opening the RAW in 16 bit doesn't make it look any closer to the Jpeg.
>> Anonymous
RAW is just that. RAW images straight from the sensor. Your cam probably put some post processing on the jpeg (saturation, sharpness etc.)
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
Not necessarily something you've done wrong. As I understand it, Nikon has some proprietary color wizardry that they do in their cameras when they convert to JPEG that they're unwilling to share with anyone else because they want you to buy their RAW conversion software. Adobe's NEF reader won't process the raw data quite the same as Nikon's, so the file will look a little different.
>> Anonymous
>>101871
Thanks a lot, I didn't know that.
>> Anonyfag of Borneo !bHymOqU5YY
Is this a RAW+JPEG mode on your camera?
>> Blackadder !!bSWRwu/NqzQ
RAW should look different. That's the whole point! RAW is unprocessed. The jpg has had all the tweaking done in camera, you are meant to do it manually for RAW.
>> Warren !WSxruxpIJs
Get a copy of the Bruce Fraser book "Camera Raw" and read up. You'll understand RAW a lot better, and if you actually adopt half the shit in the book you'll be doing more right with your digital files to start than most people.
>> Anonymous
>>101866

dont worry gays, imna make it better cause my exp there sucked, and did not get any action, none what so ever
>> Anonymous
>>101866

It might have to do with white balance settings. A RAW image will have the image as originally recorded with some "soft" settings for the white balance, meaning the image was not permanently changed in any way. A JPG will have the settings applied.
>> Anonymous
>>101930
You know any /rs/ or torrents of this? I'm very interrested in that, for some reason my RAW always look worser than the JPG version from my FZ8, what ever I do lol.
>> Anonymous
>>102696
You must really be doing it wrong, then. Panasonic cameras are known for being great cameras with horrible default processing.