RAW prints

In article , Juan Moore Beer
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Can anyone recommend an online service for making prints from RAW?

convert the raw files to jpeg and then upload. the advantage of raw is
that *you* get to decide what the best adjustments will be.

Juan Moore Beer wrote:
Can anyone recommend an online service for making prints from RAW?

I wouldn't recommend that - you won't have your adjustments to the
photo. (Things like sharpening and color.)

Can anyone recommend an online service for making prints from RAW?

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Don't you think that a straight printer from RAW would look a little
strange? For example, 1/4 of the
print would show the image in various shades of blue, 1/4 of the printer
would show the image in various
shades of read, while the rest would be various shades of green.
Jim

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:33:13 -0800, "Juan Moore Beer"
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Can anyone recommend an online service for making prints from RAW?

As others have written, use high-quality JPEG, or better yet, use a
lossless format like TIFF or PNG if the service supports that.

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Best regards,
John Navas
Panasonic DMC-FZ8 (and several others)

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Don't you think that a straight printer from RAW would look a little
strange? For example, 1/4 of the
print would show the image in various shades of blue, 1/4 of the printer
would show the image in various
shades of read, while the rest would be various shades of green.

By that way of thinking, if you print JPEG images...
they would be 1/3rd blue, 1/3rd red and 1/3rd green.
Rest assured they are *not* printed that way; and there
is no reason to assume that a RAW data set could not be
manipulated by a printer just as well as is a JPEG
image. Indeed, the RAW data would simply be converted
to JPEG and then fed to the raster image to printer
image process that any JPEG image would be subject to.

In any case, what goes to the print heads is *not* a
simple RGB data set such exists in the JPEG file.

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Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:26:44 -0900, (Floyd L. Davidson)
wrote in :

"Jim" wrote:

Don't you think that a straight printer from RAW would look a little
strange? For example, 1/4 of the
print would show the image in various shades of blue, 1/4 of the printer
would show the image in various
shades of read, while the rest would be various shades of green.

By that way of thinking, if you print JPEG images...
they would be 1/3rd blue, 1/3rd red and 1/3rd green.
Rest assured they are *not* printed that way; ...

Depending on the printer it actually may well be printed that way.
You just can't distinguish the very tiny colored dots.

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Best regards,
John Navas
Panasonic DMC-FZ8 (and several others)

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:33:13 -0800, Juan Moore Beer wrote:

Can anyone recommend an online service for making prints from RAW?

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One reason they are not is that it would require a lot of smarts in the
printer. For one thing, RAW files are generally 'mosaic' in form -
essentially, the printer would have to do a RAW to something printable
conversion before it could even start - many printers do not have that
much memory available and the processors are much slower than your
typical desktop computer, so even for a best case, it would take a LONG
time simply to prepare an image, let alone do the printing.

On 19 Feb 2008 19:41:42 GMT, ray wrote in
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On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:33:13 -0800, Juan Moore Beer wrote:

Can anyone recommend an online service for making prints from RAW?

One reason they are not is that it would require a lot of smarts in the
printer. For one thing, RAW files are generally 'mosaic' in form -
essentially, the printer would have to do a RAW to something printable
conversion before it could even start - many printers do not have that
much memory available and the processors are much slower than your
typical desktop computer, so even for a best case, it would take a LONG
time simply to prepare an image, let alone do the printing.

The comparatively wimpy low-power digital camera processor can do it in
a fraction of a second, so there really shouldn't be any processing
issue on a decent digital printer. The bigger problem is that there
isn't just one RAW format, so the digital printer would have to know how
to convert many different formats.

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Best regards,
John Navas
Panasonic DMC-FZ8 (and several others)

Usually, they would want you to supply the image in RGB TIFF or JPEG using
sRGB colour profile at a res of around 300PPI. Personally, I would go for
TIFF everytime and burn the photos to a CD/DVD and post it.

By submitting a RAW file, you would need to trust the person who is making
the adjustments for you. However, I think that there would be a market for
skilled processors to print photos from RAW, although you will be paying for
each photo to be individually assessed and processed. Not a bad thing, but
you will pay more for this service.


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