Image Format: Conversion

My project being mainly a series of photohgraphs having taken majority of the photos in Raw having worked with Raw files before from first year, however I took the first few photos of this journey in JPEG becasue i was more focused on taking these images wanting to tell a journey of how a sculpture is made, i didnt even consider the quality aspect in terms of how the photos will look when printed, thus the reason why some of the photos are JPEG.

Raw being such a large file containing unprocessed raw data captured by the sensor in the digital camera at the time of exposure.when it came to viewing the photos and trying edit them it would'nt let me open the photos. I want have these photos at its higest qaulity without compressing down the images, as im making the book in Adobe Indesign, so i did  research online on how to fix this technical hitch: below is  info i found that helped me:

the RAW file must first be converted.  Camera settings for color space, sharpness, saturation, and white balance also are not in the RAW file; they are tags which accompany the RAW file through the conversion process.

Each camera manufacturer created its own unique RAW format:  Nikon .NEF, Canon .CRW, Minolta .MRW, Olympus .ORF, Fuji .RAF, and the list goes on. Before exposed raw data in these formats is transformed into an image, it must first undergo conversion. 

However within my final tutorial with Rosie she introduced me to Bayton Erkham a photography teacher, meeting him really helped me because he told me how to work with a Raw file without losing the photos quality, ' you open the Raw image in photoshop and before opening it you turn the photo into a smart object' without degrading the photos quality'.



 Because im working with Raw files Bayton spoke to me about colormunki a software that calibrates your monitor for better color rendition when working with Raw files, which Bayton helped me to install onto my laptop which i found extremley helpful.