Amateur Photographer - UK (2020-05-16)

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AngelaNicholson

Photographerandjournalist,AngelaNicholsonstarted

reviewingcamerasforAmateurPhotographerin 2004andwas

ourTechnicalEditorbeforeleavingforpasturesnewin 2010.

LastyearshefoundedSheClicks,a community for female

photographers.squeezymedia.com

Technique USING YOUR CAMERA’S SOFTWARE

Fujifilm’sfree XRawStudiouses your

camera’sprocessingpower. Angela

Nicholson takes a look at the key features

T

herearea fewsoftwarepackages

availabletodownloadforfreefrom

Fujifilm’swebsite,butFujifilmX

RawStudiois probablytheonethat

Fujifilmphotographerswillfindtheeasiest

tounderstandanduse.It’sbasedaround

thecamera’ssettingsandevendrawsonthe

camera’sprocessingpowertodothework.

Inorderforit todothat,youneedtosetyour

camera’sPCconnectionmodeto‘USBRAW

CONV’viathemenuandthen connect it to your

computer via a USB cable.

X Raw Studio

Fujifilm

PART FIVE

MAKE THE RIGHT CONNECTION

Althoughyouneedto connectyourpowered-upcamerato yourcomputerin order
touseFujifilmX RawStudio,thesoftwareusesyourcomputer’sfilingstructureand
youworkonimagesthatareonyourharddrive.If youhavemorethanoneFujifilm
cameramodel,youneedtoensurethatyouconnectthecorrectcameraforthe
imagesthatyouwanttoedit.Youareabletoseeimagesfromanycamera,butthe
thumbnailsarea dimmedif thewrongcamerais connected.Similarly,youcansee
andselectJPEGfiles,butyoucan’teditthemin thesoftware.Consequently,it’s
worthclickingonthe3 dotstotheleftof thethumbnailsand selecting JPG/TIFF >
List RAW File Only ON/OFF so the JPEGs are hidden.