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Sorry to say, I learned late to shoot RAW + JPG. I grew up shooting film, so I was a little slow to learn the new digital aspects of photography. If the jpg is satisfactory, great, if not, then I have a fallback using the RAW to make corrections or adjustments. Most of my photographs are for selling product. I need to be able to shoot a lot of pictures and have them come directly out of the camera sufficiently good for selling on Ebay. I need an image good enough to show the item as clear and accurately as possible, taking the least amount of time to accomplish that. I have two lighting stages, one for 3d items and the other for flat items. I don't use a tripod because there is not the space for it and I need the freedom move in or out or change from portrait to landscape as needed. If an image is not technically perfect, that is ok, the image displays an item on Ebay (many times inexpensive), item sells and any imperfections were overlooked by the buyer in preference for knowing what the item was for purchase. Simply practicality reasonably balanced with aesthetics. Practicality being primary, I use FastStone Image Viewer. It is an amazingly powerful, fast and easy program to use for managing files, folders, viewing, moving, and making quick adjustments for the items I sell or for web design. It is a free program, but I contributed $ because I found it sooo useful. If you try it, let me know what you think. Visit their website to see all it's features. For RAW processing and other advanced editing I use Affinity Photo. Affinity is available for one low price with no subscription and regular updates. It is powerful, has more features than I will probably ever use and there are 90 official desktop training videos availble. I tried some of the free programs, Gimp, RawTherapee, Corel After Shot & Paint Shop (packeged with Fuji XP) and they did not gain my support. I am very happy and impressed with Affinity Photo. I am very practical and will not spend hundreds, if not thousands for a subscription over time. For a professional photographer or cinemetographer a subscription to Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom has it's advantages.
Click here for more image comparisons with a side by side slider. This will help you make sense of working in Afinity Photo. In the upper left corner are 5 icons from left to right are
When you open a jpg it opens in the Photo Persona When you open a jpg it opens in the Photo Persona. In order to maintain non-destructive edit of your image, SAVING will prompt you to save it as an .afphoto file. Which can be infinitely edited, you can even go back in in history to undo. So, properly you open a jpg, save it as an .afphoto and go about your editing of your image till you get it the way you like using all the tools available. Save your changes (saves to .afphoto file), then... Then properly you click the Export Persona icon to begin the export to your newly named jpg or whatever document you are working on. You can determine the size, compression ratio, and more. When you open a RAW file it opens in the Develop Persona. Begin your processing in the Develop Persona. Once you are done, you can save your settings to a Custom Preset if you want. Making it easy to duplicate over and over with other images. You may have a preset for Portraits, another for landscape... etc. Muted, neutral, vivid, etc. Once you are done, CLICK the Develop button, then SAVE as an .afphoto file. From here you are now in the Photo Persona and can utilize all these new tools to customize your image, crop, straighten, b&w, sharpen, tone and more. Once it is the way you want, click final save and then move to the Export Persona to export as your final jpg under a new name if you wish. This will get you started. Once you are familiar with these steps I will show you how to go from there working in the Photo Persona to super customize your images using the layers and other stuff. Video: SUPER EASY Way To Sharpen Your images Using Affinity Photo! Video: Affinity Photo - Sharpen Like a Pro in the LAB Colour Space 90 Affinity Photo Video Tutorials are available here. Each one is only a few minutes long and covers one aspect of image editing. Nikon D3300 Image using "Standard" in camera jpg setting
CUSTOM STANDARD My custom RAW Preset for a more pleasing Standard, which maintains rich colors Exposure 1, Black Point 2%, Brightness 10%, Contrast 0%, Clarity 30%, Saturation 5%, Vibrance 5%, Shadows 5%, Highlights 0%, Develope then sharpen, Radius 1px, Factor 1.896
CUSTOM NEUTRAL
CUSTOM SUB-NEUTRAL My custom RAW Preset for a low saturation and color Exposure 1, Blackpoint 0% ,Brightness 0%,Contrast 2%, Clarity 5%, Saturation -30%, Vibrance -12%, Develope then sharpen, Radius 1px, Factor 1.896
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