Panorama Stitching in RAW

[stoogest]

Hi all,

I've had look for some photo stitching software but I can't seem to find one that can process RAW images (rather than converting to TIFF as I hate the massive file sizes).

Does anyone know if there's something out there that can do that?

Cheers!

[Allann]

To my knowledge nothing does. It has to be converted. Even Photoshop, can't do anything with a raw image, it will convert it before editing. Maybe someone else can enlighten us both.

[dalewilde]

nah sorry you'd have to go to tiff or jpeg and such for all the stiching programs i know.

[ricktas]

YEP, You cant stitch RAW files together and end up with a RAW file result.

You don't have to keep the huge TIF file, you can create it, then save it as a PSD if you don't want to save it as a JPG (lossy).

[dbax]

YEP, You cant stitch RAW files together and end up with a RAW file result.

You don't have to keep the huge TIF file, you can create it, then save it as a PSD if you don't want to save it as a JPG (lossy).

yeah thats my understanding as well, most pano creating programs couldn't maintain the many different RAW formats. Ricks tip about a PSD is a good one.

[stoogest]

Rick, do you mean

RAW-->PSD-->Stitch

or

RAW-->TIF-->PSD-->Stitch?