anyone know how its done??

please help

google is your friend

so many options though was wondering if anyone has any recommendations?

open in adobe camera raw, adjust as required and click on Save - in the dialogue box, choose jpeg - this is probably the easiest way

What camera are you using sheffcruiser?

so many options though was wondering if anyone has any recommendations?

picasa is free from google, it's a pretty user friendly program that purports to organise your images, upload them do "cool" stuff with them etc.

But it happily deals with raw images, and gives you some basic tools to coax a better shot out of a marginal one.

http://picasa.google.com/

I use it.

Did you not get software with the camera ?

Capture One... Capture One.... Capture One....

I've used it for years, its easy and simple to use.

Capture One Download 30 day free trial (http://www.phaseone.com/Content/Downloads/CO4.aspx)

google raw to jpeg and theres loads of free trial software for you to download

Use LightRoom - import all the RAWs using that. Develop them in lightRoom and then export to JPEG. Finish off the photos in PhotoShop.

Treat LightRoom like a lab... develop the RAW in such a way that it will be editable in PhotoShop, for example, I do all B&W/toning in PhotoShop - and use LightRoom to squeeze each RAW file for all the Dynamic Range I can.

:)

Of course you will need to pay for lightroom, whereas a lot of the other alternatives on here are free.

Of course you will need to pay for lightroom, whereas a lot of the other alternatives on here are free.Depends how serious you are about having an all-in-one solution. :)

If nikon, use CaptureNX may be better.
Canon, use DPP..

Other 3rd party software can do this as well, such as ACDsee, picasa, lightroom, photoshop, apreture II...

I think the only free software here is picsas from google.

:) Adobe Lightroom or Bridge for me. :thumbsup:

Lightroom for me too