"Elements, My Dear Watson", a closer look @ Photoshop Elements

Now that you have set your camera to shoot RAW (right?), what's next? Well, this is where your digital workflow takes over. A digital workflow simply means what you do with your shots after snapping them and they are still sitting on your camera's memory card. Taking the photos is only half the job. Getting them off the camera, archived, processed and outputted into a format that can be used is the other half. From my experience this is the part a lot of people skip because either they are not comfortable with these steps, or simply because viewing and sharing the pictures on the camera is good enough.

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Urban legends: the RAW format

I am a huge fan of the Discovery Channel show, Mythbusters. Part science, part stuff blowing up and part people getting hurt (in the name of science), so what's not to like?

Jamie: "What do you got for us, Adam?" Adam: "You're gonna like this one. We are looking at myths related to the RAW format" (Photo credit: www.discoverychannel.ca)

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