Thursday, October 13, 2005, 1:29:15 PM, Cory wrote: CP> This kind of editing is exactly what RAW is for, so I hope the CP> photo you have is such... Did it come from a digital cam, or scanned?
Thanks for the suggestion, but... Well, I am a photojournalist. At least more significant part of my income comes from that. I don't have the time nor computer to shoot everything in RAW. Almost all of my photographs are in JPEG, excluding few with very, very difficult light. JPEG is totally sufficient for the stuff I do. If I had about 16GB of cards, I would surelly shoot RAW+JPEG, send the JPEGs and keep the RAWs for later, but I don't (have that much space). Sometimes it's easier with JPEGs because I can set it up correctly beforehand (WB, contrast) and not worry about _deciding_ from so many options upon RAW conversion (which just eats time I don't have). Most RAW converters other than the original camera makers' (which usually suck) don't recognise the information about camera set-up upon conversion. If you know what I mean, sometimes it is much more time consuming just deciding how to edit that particular RAW file. And the news and wires and mags want to tone the photographs anyway so it will look well with others or ads on the same page. Sure, RAW has advantages. Sometimes. But we have had this discussion already, countless times... I was asking about HSB/HSL colour modes, because I don't understand much about them. Yet they seem to offer, in _some_ circumstances, a definite advantage to toning in RGB mode. I was hoping this could be of interest, even to RAW shooters (you can't dodge/burn in your RAW editor, do you... and even the editor works only in RGB space, with all the associated problems of adjusting curves and saturation which affect the hues differently, if I understand it right? Even in the RAW converter, editing curves would change the hue/saturation of the tones in RGB mode. OK, so if I find something more about the issue, I will post it here... Frantisek
