This how-to article will show you how easy and pain free it is to perfectly develop your RAW images in just a few simple steps using Contenta Converter PREMIUM.  The RAW format goes by many brand specific variations such as RAW, DNG, CRW, CR2, ORF, MRW, THM, NEF, PEF, SRF, ARW, 3FR, ERF, KDC, SR2, RAF, X3F, DCR, DRF, MEF, MOS, PTX.

Step 1: Select your photos.

Click on the Add Photos button and select from the photo, or even photos, where you want the size adjusted.  Then click the ‘Next’ button.

Selecting your photo using Contenta Converter PREMIUM

Step 2: Configure the conversion job

The RAW processing panel will let you develop your digital negatives in batch. You can choose a brightness level. If it is less than 1, your photos will be darker and if it is more than 1 they will be brighter. Brightness adjusts the brightness or darkness of the image.  However, instead of changing the image in the highlights (areas that are completely white, no detail) or shadows (areas that are completely black, no detail), brightness compresses the highlights and expands the shadows when you move the slider to the right.

The white balance gives a particular color temperature to your photos. It refers to the relative warmth or coolness of white light. You can choose to select the white balanced stored in your digital camera or let it be automatically optimized.  White balance is the setting used to make something white appear neutral (without a color cast) in a given light

The last slider on the tab is used to reduce noise — the random appearance of pixels that degrade image quality and often appear when images are shot at high ISOs that are analagous to film grain. You can choose to use denoising. A stronger denoising level will have stronger effect but might remove interesting details.

Select RAW processing with Contenta Converter PREMIUM

For all these settings you can use the image preview (upper left ) in order to check the result of your choice of parameters. You can see the original image on the left and the new image on the right.  You can use the buttons to zoom in and out.  We zoomed in quite close so you could see the impact of the change in brightness.

Image Preview with Contenta Converter PREMIUM

All done!

When you have all the settings the way you like them, you select Start.  Soon you will have a successful file conversion and images that are the exact quality to meet your needs!

Successful RAW processing with Contenta Converter PREMIUM

I will demonstrate the easy and pain free way to do this with Contenta Converter PREMIUM.

Step 1: Select your photos.

Click on the Add Photos button and select from your computer the .3FR photos you wish to convert. Then click the ‘Next’ button.

Select your Hasselblad 3FR Files with Contenta Converter PREMIUM

Step 2: Configure the conversion job

Make sure the “Do convert to format” checkbox is checked and select the format. In this example we picked TIFF, but the drop down menu also gives you the choices for JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG and more than a dozen other formats!  You can also select a different output folder if you want to. This is the location where the files converted to TIFF will be stored.

Select which format to convert to using Contenta Converter Premium

Optional:

The program will default to preserve EXIF/IPTC/XMP metadatas which will preserve all the details about the photo – date it was taken, brand of camera used, model of camera used and much more detail.  You can choose to turn this off to make the file a bit smaller or to hide any of that information.   You can also choose to make the file multipage, which we have done in the image below. This will save the two images we have selected into one TIFF file.

Selecting Multipage and Metadata Options in Contenta Converter Premium

Click Start and Name the output file:

Since we selected multipage the images will be added to one file which we have to named as shown below:

Provide a name for the Multipage File

All done!

Moments later, you will see the final screen and you have your new TIFF file!  Tip – We always suggest you save the original 3FR files as these will have the best quality if you ever need to convert to other formats in the future.

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