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RawShooter essentials 2005
Introduction
Welcome to the RawShooter essentials 2005 User Guide. As photographers ourselves we know that everyone dislikes reading any documentation but we’ve specifically produced this guide to make your learning curve much quicker and far less painless. If you take the time to read it then you will quickly understand all the features of the product and how to getthe best from your RAW files.

Workflow Overview
RAWShooter essentials 2005 has a very simple architecture which is optimized for ease of use. To explain how all the components of the product work together, this guide has been organized to have a simple 4-stage workflow. This workflow will follow the process of organizing, editing and processing your images; each section will highlight allnecessary product features and give you some handy tips on how to get the best out of these features. The workflow is shown graphically below:

Step 1 – Display
The GUI has 5 different display modes to allow for user preference. All views are individually scalable and fully support drag & drop and mouse wheel technology. Generally the display mode shown (2) is used for this initial step of theworkflow, to load the RAW thumbnails from their directory and generate the low resolution previews.

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Step 2 – Edit
The next stage is to edit your RAWs using the full-screen Slideshow Tool. Using this tool you can quickly identify your best images, and of course your worst too! The best can be prioritized 1, 2 , 3 or tagged for later inspection. Using thismethod a large collection of several hundred RAWs can be edited in less than an hour. The slideshow also has a second use, transition effects and times can be specified to make a fully automated slideshow for your friends / family and clients. Once the slideshow is complete, the results of your editing can be viewed according to their priority group. The screen opposite shows the priority 1 imagesidentified during the slideshow, these can then be renamed and are ready for any corrections that you want to apply in the next stage.

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Step 3 – Correct
From your prioritized group simply choose a thumbnail to work with, select it and switch to the Dynamic Preview viewing mode (1 or TAB). This generates a high quality preview image, which can be magnified to800% and provides a fast, true to life representation of the final image. Sophisticated tools are then provided to make any adjustments to the image that you require, all controlled by simple sliders. Remember you don’t really have to understand all the bits and bytes of what the functions do as you’ll be able to clearly and instantly see the results in front of you. Just be creative and don’t berestricted by jargon.

Step 4 – Batch convert
The final stage in the workflow is to convert the RAWs to their final format, either JPEG or TIFF. The batch processor is fully multi-threaded; it will process a queue of images whilst you are applying corrections to others. Once this stage is complete then it’s back to stage 3 for the next image, which can be displayed with the click of a mousewheel or using the cursor

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Important!!
There is one final and very important point that must be understood; no RAWShooter tool ever makes ANY permanent changes to the RAW files. Using proprietary technology, RAWShooter essentials stores all the changes that you make in a colour information file; this can be backed up and applied to the RAW fileshould re-processing be necessary at a later date. Shortcut Keys To assist the experienced user of RAWShooter Essentials 2005 we’ve provided shortcut keys for some of the most useful functions. In the text these will be highlighted with the Shortcut symbol and a complete list can be found at the end of this document. RSE 2005 fully supports the MOUSEWHEEL. Nomenclature From this point on RawShooter...