Converting Photos to Raw files put on disc from Walgreens?

[chi-city]

I was recently hired to do a food photoshoot. Yummy!

To save time, after photographing the images w my manual camera i sent my roll to walgreens and have them give me the pics back on a disc.
However all the pics came back as jpegs in a weird walgreens software. I opened the jpegs in Photoshop and just resaved them as photoshop Raw files. Will this do the trick. I need high res raw files for the restaurants ad thats going in a magazine ad worth 3,000.

Can Anyone help?! Yikes!

[Broacher]

RAW files are not jpgs. They have a lot more data in them. Usable data. And saving JPGs as RAW means you've changed formats, but you haven't added any of that missing data.

What do you mean you 'need' the image to be in RAW for a mag ad? Where'd that come from?

Oh, btw, just because a file is in JPG doesn't mean you can't use OpenAs to bring it in through the RAW image processor. Or to apply batch tuning sets to a bunch in Bridge. I do it all the time. It's great. Only usually I save all my selected photos to TIFFs first. No point in introducing any more loss than necessary.

[WannaBrie]

you will need to use the RAW setting on your camera to shoot your images if that is the format you need. But like Broacher said, you don't really need RAW, do you? As long as you shot in high resolution they should be fine. What DPI settings did you use?

[chi-city]

not sure what dpi was used. I used a manual camera and then had the pics put on a cd. The images were requested by the restaurant i freelance for to be put in an advertisement in a magazine, theyre specs were to give them pictures in .raw format.

i spoke to a photography graduate a few min ago over the phone, i guess its a loss at this point, by having the images as jpegs they can no longer be converted to .raw with high res

[balou]

Did you use film? Have negatives?

[WannaBrie]

Duh-ope! I didn't read the "manual camera" part. Well, if you have negatives, all is not lost!

[Tyger]

Not sure why they would request .raw files unless they planned on tweaking exposures and can easily be done in photoshop, but since you used a manual camera that isn't an option. You could have requested the the film scans to be done in .tiff to get the best quality. If you have the negatives you can still get this done but I would communicate to your clients that .raw isn't an option on a manual camera. tiff files are still an option.

[PrintDriver]

I guess GD isn't the only vocation where amateurs with hardware abound. :D
At least it was film. But I'll bet it was fast film.

[Kristine65]

Last time I asked a processor to scan a roll of film for me, I got back a bunch of 72 dpi .jpg's :'(

AFAIK you can't get 'RAW' files from a negative. RAW is a digital output and there's a number of different ones depending upon which camera you use. If you're not worried about file size get them scanned as .bmp's, or go for .tif's as suggested above. Jpegs have the least amount of image info in them and are not good for manipulation really and changing the format from jpg to anything else wont improve the digital info. And anything for publication needs to be at 300dpi.

Hope that helps a bit ;)

[moot]

The client might have asked for "raw files," not "RAW files," meaning they wanted straight scans of your photographs. Ask your local processor (try to find a real photo shop) to scan it at no less than 1200dpi on-film, 2400 preferably, in TIFF or high-quality JPG format. This should get you the resolution you need. Best of luck, although 35mm at faster than ISO 200 won't get you a sharp 2-page spread...

I should mention RAW files only come from digital cameras or HDR scans - this is the RAW DATA from the imaging sensor before the camera processes it into a visible image. RAW files enable you to change how the image is processed to fine tune exposure, sharpening, compensate for optical problems like chromatic abberation (purple/cyan fringe) et. al.

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