Sizing Your Images From Raw to JPEGS

Stephen notes: - If you're going to photograph your own products, then shooting them in RAW format would be for your consideration, as the final quality both in colour depth and detail would be the best quality.

By shooting in RAW format, you have images that will work with your online web store as well as HiRes image for print media.

If you are only shooting products for your web store, then shooting them as JPEGs directly from your camera and not shooting RAW is fine as this will usually produce an initial JPEG image sized around 3000 x 8000 pixels.

This image size can then be 'sized down' to the chosen image format and size on the web store.

As an example, here are some usual sizes used on web stores only that you would be aiming to 'size down' you're JPEGs too. Remember that you can not 'size up JPEGS' only 'size down' in order to maintain quality.

Square Images : 1200 x 1200
Vertical : 800 x 1000 or 600 x 1000 (if you have thin products such a bottles.
Horizontal : 1000 x 800

If you choose to shoot RAW format because you need HIRES for print, then in this movie I show you how to ...

1 Open your images in the RAW translator and make adjustments within, prior to opening the image in PhotoShop.
2 Consider the general cropping and magnification of your images for consistency.
3 Size them.
4 Remove grey areas in a white background that sometimes appear if the background lighting is not as even. The way I show you is a quick way and may work for most types of products. However if you have mainly light coloured products (as in white), this may not work.
5 Some slight enhancements, sharpness and saturation.
6 Saving as high quality JPEGs.

Why photograph in Raw Format is preferred