Raw Conversion Question

[thern]

So I have a question, and I'd be grateful to anyone who could help me out. So I'm trying to make a life size cardboard cut out of me for a party, I took a photo in raw for the high quality, unfortunately the website I'm using does not accept the raw format as an upload option. Is there any program out there that can convert the raw file to a jpeg, png, tif, pdf,? I've already tried using iPhoto but the quality of the converted image was pretty poor, so I'm obviously looking for something that would keep the converted image at the same quality, and also free would be great. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[tecboy]

Have you tried a prioritizing software that comes with your DSLR?

 

[wyogirl]

agree with PP. but after that, Lightroom.... its cheap compared to its big brother Photoshop and will do an amazing job with your RAW files.

 

[thern]

I would have to go digging for my box, and I'm not confident that I could find it, though I'll keep that in mind.

Also I was hoping to find something extremely cheap, lightroom would basically double my cost. Thanks for the help so far.

 

[tecboy]

What brand is your DSLR? You can download from the brand website.

 

[Gavjenks]

The real question is, how do we get invited to this awesome party that is apparently being hosted or attended by a cardboard version of you?

Also, if we are invited, do we have to go ourselves? Or are cardboard versions similarly acceptable?

 

[Benco]

If they're not going to accept the raw file and you don't want to develop it yourself then you could just use the sharpest, highest resoution in camera JPG you can produce, it'll be fine for what you want it for.

 

[The_Traveler]

Post a link to the raw file.

 

[thern]

What brand is your DSLR? You can download from the brand website.

I have a Nikon DSLR, I went to the website but there's abut 20 options, I'm not sure what I'm looking for. I'm pretty green at this stuff, thanks for the help. Here's the link, https://support.nikonusa.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/61.

 

[thern]

The real question is, how do we get invited to this awesome party that is apparently being hosted or attended by a cardboard version of you?

Also, if we are invited, do we have to go ourselves? Or are cardboard versions similarly acceptable?

Ha! Nice. It's actually for my wedding reception, I had this genius idea of having people take pictures of the cutouts instead of with us.

 

[KmH]

What you want to download is the Nikon software application - View NX 2

 

[hirejn]

You can download a free trial of Lightroom and use it to convert RAW files. It's worth a buy if you work with RAW.

 

[thern]

Thanks for all the help, the program works great. Now based off your guy's knowledge would the quality of the photo be the same once I make it a JPEG, and then it gets blown up to a life size cut out?

 

[DiskoJoe]

So I have a question, and I'd be grateful to anyone who could help me out. So I'm trying to make a life size cardboard cut out of me for a party, I took a photo in raw for the high quality, unfortunately the website I'm using does not accept the raw format as an upload option. Is there any program out there that can convert the raw file to a jpeg, png, tif, pdf,? I've already tried using iPhoto but the quality of the converted image was pretty poor, so I'm obviously looking for something that would keep the converted image at the same quality, and also free would be great. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Get an adobe DNG converter if you dont have software to convert raw then save it in photo shop to what ever format you can use for the site. Your overthinking this.