Question for those with photography in raw and photoshop experience

[sx rider]

Strangely I've notice a picture looks better in the PS suite that the normal windows 10 photo viewer? Only started happening recently when I started to shoot in RAW for the first time, files goes from RAW to DNG to open in PS and then when its complete to JPEG. As below there is a marked difference, wierd thing is if I open the same jpeg file in PS it looks good again.

Any ideas? using cs2 if that helps...

[Asht_200]

Why convert to DNG? Photoshop will open the RAW files

Ah see you have an "older version"

[fridx]

Personally I can't see a whole lot of difference in the two images.

It could be something to do with how Photo Viewer decompresses the image.
Why not use png? Lossless compression for the win.

[sx rider]

Why convert to DNG? Photoshop will open the RAW files

Ah see you have an "older version"

Yes its the freebie version

Personally I can't see a whole lot of difference in the two images.

It could be something to do with how Photo Viewer decompresses the image.
Why not use png? Lossless compression for the win.

Could be, will try saving PNG instead and see what happens. thanks.

[Davus200]

I'm guessing both images are in RGB?

Worth checking the colour profiles are the same. Edit > Assign profile, as this can have a big impact on colour output

[Garrett_T25]

Potentially an update issue, especially if you're running an "acquired" copy of PS. There was an issue for a while of RAW files looking completely different when opened in PS. It was patched, but I'm not sure I'd advise trying to patch a hooky version.

[sx rider]

I'm guessing both images are in RGB?

Worth checking the colour profiles are the same. Edit > Assign profile, as this can have a big impact on colour output

Something I need to check, thanks.

Potentially an update issue, especially if you're running an "acquired" copy of PS. There was an issue for a while of RAW files looking completely different when opened in PS. It was patched, but I'm not sure I'd advise trying to patch a hooky version.

its not a dogde version, I got it when they made it free

[j_veitch]

I'm going to guess that its the colour space. RAW is just that, so can't be displayed without *some* processing, as you monitor is unlikely to have the same dynamic range. The straight from camera jpg has been processed according to the camera settings (colour space*, sharpness, etc). But when you import from RAW then output to jpg, you need to select the colour space used during the process. I'll bet you are using Adobe RGB, which when you re-open it will display fine in PS, but most other viewers aren't Adobe RGB... so it will look odd. Try sRGB (have a quick read at something like this http://digital-photography-school.co...-colour-space/ )

[Garrett_T25]

its not a dogde version, I got it when they made it free

Ah my mistake! Try the above with regards colour-space first (easiest option) and then check you're all up to date. Report back here if neither of those work and we'll try and work it out!

[sx rider]

I'm going to guess that its the colour space. RAW is just that, so can't be displayed without *some* processing, as you monitor is unlikely to have the same dynamic range. The straight from camera jpg has been processed according to the camera settings (colour space*, sharpness, etc). But when you import from RAW then output to jpg, you need to select the colour space used during the process. I'll bet you are using Adobe RGB, which when you re-open it will display fine in PS, but most other viewers aren't Adobe RGB... so it will look odd. Try sRGB (have a quick read at something like this http://digital-photography-school.co...-colour-space/ )

thanks for this info, will have a check of it when I'm back home.

Ah my mistake! Try the above with regards colour-space first (easiest option) and then check you're all up to date. Report back here if neither of those work and we'll try and work it out!

ok thanks mate, appreciate your help

[Asht_200]

They are constantly updating Camera RAW