RAW converter conundrum (1 Viewer)

I have been using RAW Shooter as a convertion tool for several months and find it is great for optimising pictures which look excellent when they are still int he Raw shooter software--I then convert them to the highest quality JPeg setting with sharpening maintained BUT when I open them again in Photoshop many seem to be darker then they were before conversion and I have to adjust levels again in Photoshop--is this usual or am I doing something wrong?
any advise welcome

Graham Catley

Graham

I have noticed this sort of effect when viewing images in PS and another image viewer. I maybe wrong but what I think what is happening is that PS is using the gamma correction software it installs in the control panel and other viewers don't.

(Just as an aside before I forget - I bumped it to problem with setting the adobe gamma after a Windows update. The problem turned out to be that video card driver got upgraded and the new driver prevented the gamma software tweaking the levels on the video card. I could not find a replacement driver so I ended up using another manufacturer of video card)

Just as an experiment try the following.

Display your image in raw shooter and grap a screen snap of the active window by hitting the Alt + Print Screen keys then import the screen snap via the paste board into a new file. See if the two view are different.

Rob

graham catley said:

I have been using RAW Shooter as a convertion tool for several months and find it is great for optimising pictures which look excellent when they are still int he Raw shooter software--I then convert them to the highest quality JPeg setting with sharpening maintained BUT when I open them again in Photoshop many seem to be darker then they were before conversion and I have to adjust levels again in Photoshop--is this usual or am I doing something wrong?
any advise welcome

Graham Catley

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Hi Graham,

This could be the result of using different colour spaces. Try setting your camera, rawshooter and PS to use the same colour space - eg Adobe RGB 1998.

Hope it may help,

Clive