Shooting Raw

I used to always shoot in JPEG format. The way I saw it, why would I want to deal with RAW when JPEG works just as well and can be edited in Photoshop easily. In addition JPEG gave me more the ability to take more photos. Also in the beginning when dealing with RAW it was a pain because each image had to be opened and edited and resaved before anything could be done with the image. It wasn't until Photoshop created their RAW utility that shooting in RAW became a quick process, even faster then shooting with JPEG.

When I shot in JPEG I'd save my images, then make my selects, then open each image and edit them individually in Photoshop. This process worked fine until I discovered RAW editing utility in Photoshop CS 2. With this utility I can shoot in RAW, preview and make selects in Adobes great preview application Bridge, and open all my selects at once. Photoshop places all the selects together in one dialog box and I can go through each image making all my color correction edits I can think of. I can also crop and fix tilted images as well. It's really great, and when I've made all my corrections to each of my images, which can be done in a few minutes, I let the application convert my edited images to JPEG format. In addition to saving my images the application also can be used to rename my images to my specifications.

At this point I have my archival imagery saved, and I have my selects ready to use transmit or publish. So now I only shoot in RAW format.