stevecarlson Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 <p> Can any one explane to me why?, I shot B/W Raw and some color raw with my Nokon D40, loaded on to my computer with Picasa 3, Only to have them all show up in color</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevecarlson Posted April 15, 2009 Author Share Posted April 15, 2009 <p>the camera showed the ones in B/W and Color, but when downloaded turned all to color</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltflanagan Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 <p>The RAW file still has all of the original color data. The BW setting is just a flag in the RAW file. When reviewing the pics on the camera rear LCD it sees the flag and converts the data to BW but Picasa does not read these flags therefore it shows you the full color data.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevecarlson Posted April 15, 2009 Author Share Posted April 15, 2009 <p>OK, that makes sence, Thank you very much Walt. Now I just have to convert back to B/W, but do you know is that the same with jpeg?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wpahnelas Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 <p>i think you will find that is NOT the same with jpg.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan park Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 <p>You can work with your raw files in picasa but there are other better suited to bringing out the best in the raw files. I have good luck with Nikon Capture 4 and Adobe CS2.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevecarlson Posted April 15, 2009 Author Share Posted April 15, 2009 <p>Thank you all, The down side, I dont have the money for anything better than free. </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lex_jenkins Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 <p>Steven, check out the other classic freebies Irfanview and FastStone. Each appears to use the same raw converter (my results are identical), but each offers unique approaches to solving particular problems. Neither is quite perfect so I use both.</p><p>I actually found Picasa to be more irritating than helpful and finally deleted it after spending a couple of years trying to like it. The only thing I found Picasa useful for was very quick 'n' dirty editing of JPEGs and burning them to slideshows. It does offer a very handy way to burn auto-run slideshows, and I might reinstall it just for that purpose.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevecarlson Posted April 15, 2009 Author Share Posted April 15, 2009 <p>thank you Lex, I will give it a try</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elliot1 Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 <p>Picassa is not RAW friendly.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevecarlson Posted April 15, 2009 Author Share Posted April 15, 2009 <p>Picasa does work with raw, you just need to down load the NEF viewer from Nikon, then it works great</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray House Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 <p>Try Rawtherapee, you can download it for free and if you like it they just ask for a small ($5) donation. Works great with NEF/JPEG and you can convert your NEF to 16 bit TIFF if you want.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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