Cropping an image in RAW

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22 Jul 2010 - 10:23 PM

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Chris_L

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22 Jul 2010 - 10:57 PM

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Depends on your workflow.

If you're converting RAW to JPEG then reopening in Photoshop you're losing quality when you resave as JPEG.

If you transfer from the RAW converter to Photoshop by way of an intermediary lossless file (like the temporary TIFFs that DPP produces) then it doesn't matter where you crop.

Which RAW converter do you use? If you're using Photoshop to load the RAW then it doesn't matter - there isn't a JPEG involved til you save one when you've finished.

You can't keep the image at the original size and crop unless you invent some new pixels to replace the ones you just cropped off. You'd do that by resizing in Photoshop and interpolating existing pixels.


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Gaucho (e2 Member)

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23 Jul 2010 - 9:06 AM

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If you are talking about keeping the original size in RAW, nothing changes in RAW. When you reload the RAW file at a later date it will show the crop but all you have to do is click on the crop tool, hit escape and you are back where you started.

Malcolm