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<blockquote data-quote="Dave_W" data-source="post: 96753" data-attributes="member: 9521"><p>When you open a RAW file in any program, it has to convert the data into an image file so that you can view it on your computer. To do this it uses predetermined set of instructions on how to render that photo into a JPEG and make it view able on a computer screen. Same thing when you &quot;take&quot; a JPEG inside your camera, the file starts off as a RAW file and then it follows the camera manufacturers set of instructions to render it a view able JPEG. Similar to what Picasa is doing only under a slightly different set of instructions. The reason people take RAW photos is because they do not agree with the pre-set instructions provided by the camera or by Picasa and instead prefer to render the image the in a way that more closely matched their artistic intent. RAW based photographs can be rendered with any number of programs, from Lightroom to the free ViewNX program provided by Nikon. Give one of them a try and see if you can't make your images more to what you had in mind than can what the camera thinks you had in mind.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Dave_W, post: 96753, member: 9521"] When you open a RAW file in any program, it has to convert the data into an image file so that you can view it on your computer. To do this it uses predetermined set of instructions on how to render that photo into a JPEG and make it view able on a computer screen. Same thing when you "take" a JPEG inside your camera, the file starts off as a RAW file and then it follows the camera manufacturers set of instructions to render it a view able JPEG. Similar to what Picasa is doing only under a slightly different set of instructions. The reason people take RAW photos is because they do not agree with the pre-set instructions provided by the camera or by Picasa and instead prefer to render the image the in a way that more closely matched their artistic intent. RAW based photographs can be rendered with any number of programs, from Lightroom to the free ViewNX program provided by Nikon. Give one of them a try and see if you can't make your images more to what you had in mind than can what the camera thinks you had in mind. [/QUOTE]

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