Exporting from Capture One Express
I'm a beginner with RAW (Sony RX100 M6) and I've just started to learn Capture One Express. I have what is no doubt a very simplistic question and will greatly appreciate assistance. I import a RAW file into Capture One Express, work on it, and then go to the Export window. This allows me to select an 'Export Location' which is a folder in Windows 7 Explorer. Further down under 'Export Recipe' I can choose the format in which I want the file to be exported. The drop down box offers JPEGs, PNG & TIFF, but no mention of RAW. The exported file ends up in Explorer it as a JPEG whereas I want it as a RAW file. What am I doing wrong? Many thanks. J.
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You can't export a raw file. If you have made edits to it, the original file is not altered in any way. Capture One keeps track of your edits, and then it can produce output in formats such as TIFF, JPG, etc, which it creates by combining the edits you have made with the raw data in the raw file. (All raw editors work the same way - they are non destructive, and the whole point is to produce the TIFF, JPG, etc derived from your original raw image and your adjustments to it.)
Ian
Edited to add: after all, the aim in the end is to produce something that you can print and hang on your wall, or show on social media or a website, or incorporate into a publication such as a newsletter or book, and for that you need output in a format that is usable for those purposes.0 -
To add to Ian3's comment ...
A RAW file is, basically, just a mass of data from the sensor with, usually, an in-camera generated smallish jpg file that acts as a high quality thumbnail for presentation through programs that have the ability to see the jpg and display it.
Capture One, as with other programs, is an application that acts as a converter of the RAW file data and changes it into something that can be displayed and looks like an image with reasonable colour interpretation,, corrections for lens distortion and many other factors.
The output is then provided to make the interpretation work available in a form that other types of application can read and understand and then display or work with for further editing if necessary. These are normally file types that have been developed as "industry standards" and are commonly used and have been commonly used since the digital graphics emerged during the computer revolution ages ago. (Well, OK, about 30 years ago. Ages in modern world terms!)
The most common output types from a RAW file conversion would be jpg(a space saving compressed format) which is commonly used for just about everything in various forms, or TIF (also TIFF) which typical is thought of as a shareable form of an interpreted RAW file, usually not compressed and so quite large but offering a lot of data in order to retain high quality during subsequent editing activities, perhaps using some other software such as PhotoShop or similar.
Capture One allows you to continue to work directly from the RAW file data when making changes during editing or to work with the a TIFF or jpg, etc. But other programs may require a TIFF type or jpg or one of the other file formats if they are to be usable.
HTH.
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Many thanks Ian3 and SFA. This just goes to show the depth of my ignorance regarding RAW and its usage. Way to go? J. 0 -
NNN636980159638024197 wrote:
Many thanks Ian3 and SFA. This just goes to show the depth of my ignorance regarding RAW and its usage. Way to go? J.
We have all been there at some point. Some of us, in some areas, for an embarrassingly long time looking in retrospect.
Indeed there are some places that I, and I suspect others, are less than enthusiastic to dive into unless they are completely unavoidable.
Fortunately one can usually find a masochist or three who are happy to provide tier experiences of their expeditions into the murky depths of the more complicated aspects of making and sharing images.
I am extremely grateful for their selflessness.
Frequently.
Grant0
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