RAW to JPEG Conversion.

[tomhooper]

I need some advice and/or opinions from some of you gurus. I use Canon's Digital Photo Professional software to process my RAW images. I've gotten comfortable with it and like it. My problem arises when I convert to JPEG format. The image does not convert as sharply as I would like. I know that jpg is a compression format and that you will lose some IQ but it seems that there is a big difference from the sharpened and processed RAW image to the converted image. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I do convert at maximum quality. Do I need to change conversion software?

Thanks in advance

Hoop

[siks]

I typically convert to jpg and run unsharp mask to resharpen. Keep all the original files though, as sharpened jpgs don't print very well.

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

At the Austin photo seminar a couple weeks ago several photographers, representing different camera makers, all said that the best RAW converters are the ones that each manufacturer makes for their own equipment. They said that many of the aftermarket converters are good but they don't have all of the proprietary data that the mfg have about how their chips interpret the RAW data. So maybe you can find a friend who has an aftermarket converter and see how it handles some of your RAW files and see if it is a look that you want.

As mentioned above you may need to adjust your sharpen levels and some of the other adjustments. (heck go in and fool around since you still have your RAW file anyway to go back to).